man2html alternative?

man2html alternative?

[Christian Franke]

Due to the replacement of 'man' with 'man-db', the man2html tool is no 
longer available.

Is any man2html alternative available in a package?
Using "groff -man -Thtml" may be one, but this does not generate HTML links.

Christian


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Re: man2html alternative?

[Chris J. Breisch]

At Thursday, July 3, 2014, 12:08:48 PM, Christian Franke wrote:

> Due to the replacement of 'man' with 'man-db', the man2html tool is no
> longer available.

> Is any man2html alternative available in a package?
> Using "groff -man -Thtml" may be one, but this does not generate HTML links.

> Christian

A version of man2html is part of AutoGen. See here:
http://autogen.sourceforge.net/index.html and here:
http://autogen.sourceforge.net/man2html.html.

I see that AutoGen is available from Cygwin Ports
(ftp://sourceware.org/pub/cygwinports/portslist.txt), but I don't know
if man2html is included in the package.


If there's interest, I could look into moving this project out of
Cygwin Ports and into Cygwin itself.


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Re: man2html alternative?

[Yaakov Selkowitz]

On 2014-07-03 11:24, Chris J. Breisch wrote:
> A version of man2html is part of AutoGen. See here:
> http://autogen.sourceforge.net/index.html and here:
> http://autogen.sourceforge.net/man2html.html.
>
> I see that AutoGen is available from Cygwin Ports
> (ftp://sourceware.org/pub/cygwinports/portslist.txt), but I don't know
> if man2html is included in the package.

It is not because the upstream sources do not include such a component.

In Fedora, man2html is provided as a separate package based on the 
man-1.6g sources:

http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/man2html.git/tree/man2html.spec


Yaakov


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Re: man2html alternative?

[Chris J. Breisch]

At Thursday, July 3, 2014, 12:43:55 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:

> On 2014-07-03 11:24, Chris J. Breisch wrote:
>> A version of man2html is part of AutoGen. See here:
>> http://autogen.sourceforge.net/index.html and here:
>> http://autogen.sourceforge.net/man2html.html.
>>
>> I see that AutoGen is available from Cygwin Ports
>> (ftp://sourceware.org/pub/cygwinports/portslist.txt), but I don't know
>> if man2html is included in the package.

> It is not because the upstream sources do not include such a component.

> In Fedora, man2html is provided as a separate package based on the 
> man-1.6g sources:

> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/man2html.git/tree/man2html.spec

Well, I could certainly do something similar.


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Re: man2html alternative?

[Christian Franke]

Chris J. Breisch wrote:
> At Thursday, July 3, 2014, 12:43:55 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
>
>> In Fedora, man2html is provided as a separate package based on the
>> man-1.6g sources:
>> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/man2html.git/tree/man2html.spec
> Well, I could certainly do something similar.

+1

Thanks,
Christian


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RE: man2html alternative?

[Nellis, Kenneth]

> From: Christian Franke
> Chris J. Breisch wrote:
> > At Thursday, July 3, 2014, 12:43:55 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> >
> >> In Fedora, man2html is provided as a separate package based on the
> >> man-1.6g sources:
> >> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/man2html.git/tree/man2html.spec
> > Well, I could certainly do something similar.
> 
> +1

+1 (=2!)

--Ken Nellis

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