Browsing man pages
Aug. 9th, 2006 09:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sawylFed up with having to use SUX to read man pages, I finally got round to setting up man.cgi from the goodly folks at FreeBSD.org. It took a while to knock the thing into shape mainly, if I'm honest, because of the horrible pile of cruft that is
My only complaint so far is the slightly counter-intuitive interface. It's not immediately apparent that the pull down menu only really affects key word searches and that changing the OS from the menu makes absolutely no difference to the section indexes etc. Then again, it's nice just to have the facility to search through the manuals for more than one OS, even if they are tricky to browse, so I guess it's a bit churlish to complain overmuch.
man under Linux and not because of problems with the BSD browser.My only complaint so far is the slightly counter-intuitive interface. It's not immediately apparent that the pull down menu only really affects key word searches and that changing the OS from the menu makes absolutely no difference to the section indexes etc. Then again, it's nice just to have the facility to search through the manuals for more than one OS, even if they are tricky to browse, so I guess it's a bit churlish to complain overmuch.
