hman (1)

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Copyright (c) 1998 Andries Brouwer

You may distribute under the terms of the GNU General Public
License as specified in the README file that comes with the man 1.0
distribution.

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

NAME

hman - browse the on-line manual pages

SYNOPSIS

hman [ -P browser ] [ -H host ] [ section ] name
hman [ -P browser ] [ -H host ] [ section ] [ index ]

DESCRIPTION

The hman script is an interface to man2html(1) that allows you to enter man page requests at the command line and view the output in your favourite browser. The behaviour reminds of that of man(1) so that many people will be able to alias hman to man. If the browser used is netscape, and an incarnation of netscape is running already, hman will pass the request to the existing browser.

OPTIONS

-P browser

Specify which browser (like lynx, xmosaic, arena, chimera, netscape, amaya, ...) to use. This option overrides the MANHTMLPAGER environment variable. The default is the non-httpd version of lynx, or sensible-browser if lynx cannot be found.

-H host

Specify from what host to get the man pages. This option overrides the MANHTMLHOST environment variable. The default is localhost.

ENVIRONMENT

MANHTMLPAGER

The default browser to use is selected using this environment variable.

MANHTMLHOST

The default host to use is selected using this environment variable.

SEE ALSO

man(1), man2html(1), arena(1), lynx(1), sensible-browser(1), netscape(1), xmosaic(1), glimpse(1)
www.mcom.com/newsref/std/x-remote.html