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Package: man2html (1.6c-6)

turns a web-browser and an httpd-server into a man pager

Point your web browser at http://localhost/cgi-bin/man/man2html and you got your manpages in the browser.

Features: 

 * Fast C CGI program for man/BSD-mandoc to HTML conversion.
 * Works from the unformatted nroff/troff source.
 * Source may be compressed.
 * Does tbl tables (but not eqn equations).
 * Generates hypertext links to foobar(1), abc@host, and xyzzy.h files
 * CGI script for whatis-based alpha-indexes by section.
 * CGI script for name-only alpha-indexes by section.
 * CGI script for full text search (requires swish++)
 * Front-end script to talk to a pre-launched netscape.

See http://users.actrix.gen.nz/michael/vhman2html.html for details.

Tags: Implemented in: C, User Interface: World Wide Web, Role: Program, Purpose: Data Conversion, World Wide Web: CGI, Works with: Text, Supports Format: HTML, Hypertext Markup Language, Manpages

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    or debconf-2.0
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  • dep: debianutils (>= 2.1)
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  • dep: gawk
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  • dep: libc6 (>= 2.3.5-1)
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  • dep: man-db (>= 2.4.1)
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