hman(1) General Commands Manual 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, net-
scape, amaya, ...) to use. This option overrides the MANHTML-
PAGER environment variable. The default is sensible-browser.
A special value lynxcgi can be used for the non-httpd version of
lynx, but this requires the lynx(1) command to be installed and
approprietly configured.
-H host
Specify from what host to get the man pages. This option over-
rides the MANHTMLHOST environment variable. The default is lo-
calhost.
ENVIRONMENT
MANHTMLPAGER
The default browser to use is selected using this environment
variable.
MANHTMLHOST
The default host to use is selected using this environment vari-
able.
SEE ALSO
man(1), man2html(1), arena(1), lynx(1), sensible-browser(1), net-
scape(1), xmosaic(1), glimpse(1)
http://www.mcom.com/newsref/std/x-remote.html
19 January 1998 hman(1)
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