dwww (1)

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$Id: dwww.1 531 2009-02-15 12:54:08Z robert $

(The comments found at the beginning of the groff file "man1/dwww.1".)

NAME

dwww - access documentation via WWW

SYNOPSIS

http://localhost/dwww/index.html
dwww
dwww program-name | package-name

DESCRIPTION

A typical Linux system has documentation in many formats (manual pages, info files, READMEs, and so on). dwww makes it possible to access all of these via the same interface, a WWW browser. This makes it easier to use the documentation.

To use dwww, load the URL given in the SYNOPSIS. If you have a web browser installed, you can also just run the dwww command which loads the URL. If BROWSER environment variable is set, dwww uses sensible-browser(1) to load the URL. Otherwise, dwww first tries to use browser specified by DWWW_BROWSER or DWWW_X11_BROWSER configuration variable (cf. dwww(7)), than will use sensible-browser(1) command.

If optional argument program-name or package-name is specified, dwww will search all documentation related to given program or package.

ENVIRONMENT

BROWSER

Program used to load the above mentioned URL.

FILES

/etc/dwww/dwww.conf

Configuration file for dwww.

SEE ALSO

dwww-find(8), dwww(7), sensible-browser(1).

AUTHOR

Lars Wirzenius <liw@iki.fi>. Modified by Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>.
Bugs should be reported via the Debian Bug Tracking System at <URL:bugs.debian.org>.

dwww is licensed via the GNU General Public License. While it has been written for Debian, porting it to other systems is strongly encouraged.