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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
- Path: sparky!uunet!keinstr!chaplin
- From: chaplin@keinstr.uucp (Roger Chaplin)
- Subject: Re: Online help programs?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.132209.5378@keinstr.uucp>
- Organization: Keithley Instruments, Cleveland, Ohio
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- References: <PATRICK.93Jan7151240@casbs.Stanford.EDU>
- Distribution: comp
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 13:22:09 GMT
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- Patrick Goebel (patrick@casbs.Stanford.EDU) wrote:
- : I have been spending considerable time writing an online help facility
- : to supplement the UNIX man pages. The idea is to present to the user
- : a menu driven help tree that can be navigated to find easy-to-read
- : answers to common questions.
-
- : As much as I have enjoyed the challenge so far (;->), it dawned on me
- : that I may be reinventing the wheel. Does anyone know of an existing
- : menu-driven online help tool that allows the administrator to add and
- : edit help files at will?
-
- There is an X11 man page browser called xman which does this quite
- nicely (for those users with X11 displays). It accesses all man pages
- in all directories specified in the MANPATH environment variable. The
- admin can write his `easy-to-read' help files and add the name of the
- directory containing them to MANPATH.
- --
- Roger Chaplin / chaplin@keinstr.uucp / CI$: 76307,3506
- "For the lines are long and the fighting is strong and they're breakin'
- down the distance between right and wrong."
- - Bob Dylan, "Ring Them Bells"
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