Ted Byers wrote:
Done. OK. I haven't used man in the decades since I finished university. I see the man pages haven't improved much since then.
---- The man pages are the main reference for most linux command-line programs. An exception to that is that 'info' pages (best browseable with 'pinfo' which gives you a text-based HTML browser type interface (like lynx), which is needed for some more arcane gnu commands who came up with a "hyperlinked" documentation system that they stuck with in spite of HTML. Also, unlike perl, they provided no translator that automatically translates all of those info pages into HTML (man pages would be 'better', BUT, would lose the hyperlinking)...
I had assumed that man would have been superceded by something from the twenty first century by now.
No more than perl has been replaced with something from the 21st century.
But maybe my impression of man pages has been a bit jaundiced, as the man pages I endured so long ago, on the departmental machine way back then, were notoriously inaccurate.
If they are, it is a bug.
Oh yes, but the trick, in this case, is to find the manual in order to be able to read it. I guess, the heart of my question was 'where is the manual so I can read it?'
There is no central manpage, but a primitive browser might be 'xman', but only works if MANPATH is defined, or if the manpages are located under /usr/man. To use it directly: you might (as root -- or use sudo if you have configured it): sudo ln -s /usr/share/man /usr/man --------------------------------- Note, if you want 'pretty HTML' renderings of your perldoc manpages, install the Mojo & Mojolicious modules (they 'should' come with a bunch of sub-modules)... Looks like "Mojolicious::Plugin::PODRenderer (3pm) - POD renderer plugin" would be key... then you can start a webserver for pod documentation with: ( perl -Mojo -e ' plugin "PODRenderer"; plugin "Pedro"; a()->start' daemon -l http://localhost:3000 & ) Any perlpod pages it can't find on your system, it will try to lookup on the main perl website. Nice looking, but not as convenient as "man <...>" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org