[NCLUG] Mandrake 8.1 installed again.

[M Butcher]

Yeah, as far as reading man pages go, KDE is pretty friendly... Konqueror 
reads them, the help systems reads them... you can even open the "Run 
Command" dialog and type man:<entry> and it will  open the man page in konq.

IMHO, this beats xman any day!

Matt

On Friday 02 November 2001 09:52, you wrote:
> > into learning Linux again. My only complaint so far is
> > that I can't find xman on the system yet. Also I'm
>
> Xman is OLD stuff!  I remember compiling it for my old
> Slack 3 system with FVWM... It apparently still comes
> with Slackware -- in the xman.tgz package.  Check the
> comp.os.X.sources newsgroup archives... I can't find
> it right now.  The Slack binary will probably work for
> you, if you'd like.
>
> tkman is also suggested.  It depends on TK, of course. To
> print from tkman, choose "Kill Trees" from the "Occasionals"
> menu.  Heh.
>
> GMan is a Gnome man page viewer...
> http://freshmeat.net/projects/gman/
>
> If you don't, consider looking at the help viewer that comes
> with KDE or Gnome.  At the very least, KDE's Help Viewer can
> read man pages.  The url looks a little like:
>   man:(index)
>
> I expect that Gnome has one just like it, but I'm not sure.
>
>
>
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