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[Tom Buskey]

xman is pretty good.
I used tkman once upon a time & it was better.  It hypertexted the man
pages.

It could be setup to browse multiple OS man pages.  At the time I was
porting shell scripts from Ultrix csh to sh on Ultrix, SunOS, Solaris,
HP-UX, Irix and OSF/1 (now Tru64?).

The O'Reilly CD bookshelves are an excellent way to search through
documentation.  I especially like the Perl CD shelf.  A java app lets you
search all the books on CD for terms and it's excellent for finding code
snippets.

I'd imagine O'Reilly Safari is similar and can encompas more books.

The printed tomes have thier place but you can't grep dead trees.  Nowadays,
with a laptop or tablet PC (heck, PDAs too) and wireless you *can* read the
HTML/PDF electronic books in the bathroom/bed/etc.  Even if it feels a bit
geeky.

On 2/21/06, Dan Coutu <coutu at snowy-owl.com> wrote:
>
> Bill McGonigle wrote:
> > On Feb 21, 2006, at 10:51, Jon maddog Hall wrote:
> >
> >> I use "apropos" a lot, but it is just not the same as the printed man
> >> pages.
> >
> > You're on to something there.
> >
> > It got me thinking, "so what's the good modern-day equivalent that
> > doesn't involve dead trees"? At first I thought, well there must be an
> > RSS feed for "Man Page of the Day".  There's one fella who has a
> > sub-section of his blog dedicated to that which he updates once every
> > several months.
> For a long time I've liked the xman program in order to browse man
> pages. I typically invoke it with the -notopbox switch to minimize
> screen clutter.
>
> It shows you all of the available man pages, sorted alphabetically, in a
> given section. Handy.
>
> Dan
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