DWWW

Section: Debian (1)
Updated: December 21th, 2020
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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.

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:https://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.

This document was created by man2html, using the manual pages.
Time: 08:38:18 GMT, April 26, 2024