netscape-man(1)

netscape-man1

Format and display the on-line manual pages

Usage

netscape-man [section] name

netscape-man [section] [intro]

Overview

The netscape-man script is an interface to man2html(8) that allows you to enter man page requests at the command line and view the output in netscape(1). If you are already running netscape, the script will pass the request to the existing browser. You can can use your shell to alias the name to something shorter if you wish.

Supply the section and page name, or the page name only.

Supplying just the section name will cause a name-only index for that section to be presented.

Supplying the section name and the word "intro" will cause the name-subject index for that section to be presented.

Releases

6 releases since Debian 1.2 (Rex); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 1.2–1.3
  2. 2.0–3.0

From man2html 1.5-23.2 in Debian 3.0 (Woody). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.