[dundee] Man Page Search Engine

[Robert Ladyman]

In Konqueror, just type man: and then the command (or part of it). The joy of 
KDE

RJL


> On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:30:53 +0000
> 
> Rick Moynihan <rick.moynihan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Just discovered this site, it's an online archive and search engine
> > for almost every man page!
> >
> > http://man.cx/
> >
> > It also has comments at the bottom, for users to ask questions and
> > post tips etc...
> >
> > It's not perfect, but it's pretty cool, especially if you want to view
> > the man page of software you haven't installed.
> 
> Puppy Linux uses http://linux.die.net/man/ for its man pages. It
> actually launches a browser window at the right page when using man in
> a terminal. Gentoo users, if you're REALLY short on space, you can use
> the "noman" feature in make.conf to stop Portage installing man pages.
> That's my useless fact for the day. :)
> 
> James
> 
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