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Winterhart Offline

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Posted: Mar. 02 2006,20:52

Is there any way to fix that? They don't actually display completely in the browser, either; just some text that says "If this page is not displayed, click here."
I don't get any error messages, so I assume the pages have all been installed.
Is there anything that I can do to fix this, so the man pages display correctly on the commandline (without links!) ?

Thank you --

mikshaw

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Posted: Mar. 03 2006,02:26

DSL doesn't have man...it's a shell script that loads online html-formatted man pages into a browser.

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http://www.tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/html/index.html

roberts

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Posted: Mar. 03 2006,02:37

The latest version doesn't use links or a browser.
It uses wget and the less pager.

pr0f3550r

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Posted: Mar. 03 2006,13:52

Code Sample

dsl@box:~$ cat /usr/local/bin/man
#!/usr/bin/perl
# man utility substitute
# written for Damn Small Linux by John Andrews March 07, 2004
# made to use Wget and Less in place of Links now Dec 15, 2005
use strict;

Wow, very clever!

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Winterhart Offline

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Posted: Mar. 03 2006,15:30

Hmm...I got DSL 2.0 from the coverdisk of one of my linux mags this month...methinks they were slightly behind the times!

However, this still means that I can only get at the man pages when I'm online. Which sucks, as I need help with the commands that are supposed to *get* me online.

Well, at least I know now that it's not something I did wrong. Thanks very much to all!

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