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diff --git a/nx-X11/extras/rman/contrib/README-contrib b/nx-X11/extras/rman/contrib/README-contrib deleted file mode 100644 index 2d6885d91..000000000 --- a/nx-X11/extras/rman/contrib/README-contrib +++ /dev/null @@ -1,144 +0,0 @@ -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 - |