[NCLUG] Mandrake 8.1 installed again.

M Butcher mbutcher at aleph-null.tv
Fri Nov 2 10:53:33 MST 2001


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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