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Re: man to HTML CGI script



Ira Abramov <ira@scso.com> writes:

> 
> On 24 Jul 1997, Alexander L. Belikoff wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I'm looking for the subj. Some investigation on the Internet revealed
> > a number of such scripts. Unfortunately there is no way to evaluate
> > the usefullness of any of them (except for installing them). So, I
> > just wonder, whether anybody has any experience with man->HTML
> > conversion on the fly with usual goodies (cross references in the body
> > etc.)
> 
> http://www.linux.org.il/cgi-bin/man-cgi doesn't do all of them, but it's
> small and fast... tell me if you find anything better... links here are
> shown only if the source contains them. compare the "see also" sections of
> these pages:
> 
> http://www.linux.org.il/cgi-bin/man-cgi?shutdown
> http://www.linux.org.il/cgi-bin/man-cgi?fsck+8
> 
> 
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> 

Thanks. Tried it, installed it... Looks fine, although it doesn't
handle cross-references well. Anyway, it's better than nothing.

Also, the automatic generation of the list of man pages for each
section would be great. If I get some spare time, I'll add it to the
script. :-)

-- 
-Alexander

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Alexander L. Belikoff			abel@bfr.co.il
Berger Financial Research Ltd.
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