Re: Unix man pages to web

Article View: comp.infosystems.intranet

Article #2

Back to comp.infosystems.intranet Previous Next

From: David Sewell
Date: Wed, 08 Jul 1998 00:00

20 lines
2107 bytes

In article <35A38FDA.F21A393E@cellnet.com>,
Alan Oehler  <alan.oehler@cellnet.com> wrote:
>I want to take the files that the Unix man command uses to format man
>pages onscreen, and turn them into both Word or Frame documents and HTML
>documents. 

To avoid reinventing the wheel, first look at the program "rman"
(formerly known as PolyglotMan), which accepts [nt]roff source for
man pages from most varieties of Unix and can output versions in
formats including ASCII, HTML, SGML, LaTeX, RTF, and TkMan.

Source can be found at:

 ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/ucb/people/phelps/tcltk/rman.tar.Z

-- 
David Sewell  *  dsew@packrat.aml.arizona.edu   | "Night-walkers, wizards,
Dep't of Geosciences, University of Arizona     |  bacchanals, revellers,
 http://packrat.aml.arizona.edu/~dsew/          |  sharers in the mysteries."
                                                |      --Heraclitus

Technical Details

Message-ID: <6o05og$4e9@polaris.azstarnet.com>

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!unknown!not-for-mail

References: <35A38FDA.F21A393E@cellnet.com>

Show Full Headers

Complete Article Headers

X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: f7fda,4f93ae1c7f1e04c6
X-Google-Attributes: gidf7fda,public
X-Google-Thread: f4ca8,4f93ae1c7f1e04c6
X-Google-Attributes: gidf4ca8,public
X-Google-Thread: f4f4a,4f93ae1c7f1e04c6
X-Google-Attributes: gidf4f4a,public
X-Google-Thread: 10da0c,4f93ae1c7f1e04c6
X-Google-Attributes: gid10da0c,public
X-Google-Thread: 116644,4f93ae1c7f1e04c6
X-Google-Attributes: gid116644,public
X-Google-Thread: fc1ac,4f93ae1c7f1e04c6
X-Google-Attributes: gidfc1ac,public
X-Google-Thread: f432c,4f93ae1c7f1e04c6
X-Google-Attributes: gidf432c,public
X-Google-Thread: 10bba1,4f93ae1c7f1e04c6
X-Google-Attributes: gid10bba1,public
From: dsew@packrat.aml.arizona.edu (David Sewell)
Subject: Re: Unix man pages to web
Date: 1998/07/08
Message-ID: <6o05og$4e9@polaris.azstarnet.com>
X-Deja-AN: 369577179
References: <35A38FDA.F21A393E@cellnet.com>
Followup-To: comp.text
Organization: Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.intranet,comp.infosystems.www.authoring.misc,microsoft.public.word.docmanagement,alt.html,comp.text.frame,comp.text,bit.listserv.techwr-l,comp.infosystems.www.authoring.tools

Reply to Parent Message