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diff --git a/nx-X11/extras/rman/contrib/README-contrib b/nx-X11/extras/rman/contrib/README-contrib new file mode 100644 index 000000000..2d6885d91 --- /dev/null +++ b/nx-X11/extras/rman/contrib/README-contrib @@ -0,0 +1,144 @@ +This directory contains files contributed by PolyglotMan users. These +files are not installed, supported or regularly updated to work with +new versions of PolyglotMan. They are included because some may find +them useful, and if so they prevent duplication of effort. + +-- + +* sutter.txt - "Edward L. Sutter" <els@sage.sage.att.com> + +"...converting "man" directories with their typical sub-directories of +man1, man2, etc... to an equivalently structured "html" directory with +the same sub-directory heirarchy." + +"I added an option to rman that allows it to search for the files over +a specified set of directories. This allows (for example) manpages under +man1 that reference something under man3 to be properly linked." + +-- + +* bennett.txt - Anne Bennett <anne@alcor.concordia.ca> + +"... I applied the mods in contrib/sutter.txt, and then amplified +them. I append the relevant context diffs. In short, I added options +"-P" (a URL prefix for use with the paths found by "-S"), and "-H" and +"-F" (header and footer HTML files to help adjust the style of the +resulting page, for example by adding company logos, +return-to-home-page buttons, etc.)." + +-- + +* authried.txt - Erwin Authried <eauth@mail4u.atnet.at> + +"I wrote a small perl script (it's a quick hack) to view man-pages +with the web-browser." + +-- + +* gzip.patch - Todd Larason <jtl@molehill.org> + +"I keep several manpage hierarchies locally, for easy comparison when +programming for multiple unix machines, most of which are across a +relatively slow link. To save disk space, I keep them gzipped. + +"Here's a small patch to make .so handling work against gzipped files. +It's a late-night-after-a-long-day hack, but it seems clean enough. If +you think there might be any interest, feel free to include it either in +rman itself or the contrib directory. It's against 3.0a3." + +-- + +* man2html - Marc Donner (donner@fid.morgan.com) + +A Korn Shell script that is moderately generic. It takes all the +files in a directory or a set of directories and does them one at a +time, putting the html output somewhere appropriate. The only +infelicity in the script is the stuff with localeo (local electronic +office) which is a hack put together to tweak the URLs not to refer to +localhost, which is broken right now, but directly to the local +server's alias. + +--- + +* sco-wrapper.sh - Dag Nygren <dag@newtech.fi> + +SCO puts the names of valid man page sections in the file /etc/default/man. +This wrapper extracts the names from this file and passes them on to +PolyglotMan for use in determining man page cross references. + +--- + +* http-rman.{c,html} - Fredrik Lundh <fredrik@kalle.teragon.ivab.se> + +An HTTP server using PolyglotMan to produce hypertext renditions of +man-pages on the fly. + +--- + +* lewis.pl - Herb Lewis <herb@chomps.engr.sgi.com> + +CGI bin script written in Perl. + +--- + +* hman.{cgi,ksh,pl} by teto@geocities.com +A more recent version may be available at http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/8777/hman.html + + hman.cgi An example of a cgi-bin wrapper to launch hman.pl + Ideally, all customization should occur here + hman.ksh A stand-alone (non-browser) version of hman.cgi + hman.pl The core of the PolyglotMan front-end + +"I've written a man to html front-end that appears to have unique features: +A second attempt to locate related man pages is made if the original +inquiry fails + +"Since PolyglotMan can filter nroff's output or can work with raw +nroff files, this viewer allows selection of the actual man page +file. Thus either raw or cooked man pages can be selected directly. + +"The program is basic perl, but the implementation allows all customization +to be embodied in enviroment variables that should be set in a cgi-bin +wrapper." + +-- + +* youki.pl - Youki Kadobayashi <youki@center.osaka-u.ac.jp> + +CGI bin script written in Perl 5, and using CGI.pm +and thus "it can be accelerated with mod_perl". + +--- + +rman_html_split - Robert Moniot <moniot@fordham.edu> +rman_html_split.1 + +Breaks up rman HTML output in file (or standard input) into separate +section files, placing them into a directory. With manual page. + +--- + +Other converters are not included in this directory, but rather are +available over the net: + +* bsdi-man.pl - Fritz Heinrichmeyer + +Available at: http://ES-sun2.fernuni-hagen.de + + +* bbc_man2html - Brooks Cutter (brooks@paradyne.com) + +Available at: http://www.stuff.com/~bcutter/home/programs/bbc_man2html.html + + +* rman.pl - Alex Gagin + +Available at: http://www.jinr.dubna.su/~gagin/rman.pl.html + +(Be aware that the communications link is slow.) + + +* manner.pl - Ray W. Hiltbrand + +Available at: ftp://ftp.eng.auburn.edu/pub/rayh/man2html/manner.pl + |