cmd:rman, PolyglotMan

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Usage

generate single file

rman -f html -r '%s.%s.html' man_file > man_file.htm

Info

Description

from ANNOUNCE-rman

PolyglotMan (nee RosettaMan) is a filter for UNIX manual pages. It takes as input man pages for a variety of UNIX flavors and produces as output a variety of file formats.

Source

The home location for PolyglotMan is ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu//ucb/people/phelps/tcltk/ (this is a softlink to the latest numbered version).

ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu//ucb/people/phelps/tcltk/rman-3.0.8.tar.Z — (1999.10.28 Thu)

build

From README-rman

Set BINDIR in the Makefile to where you keep your binaries and MANDIR to where you keep your man pages (in their source form). (If you're using PolyglotMan with TkMan, BINDIR needs to be a component of your bin PATH.)

After properly editing the Makefile, type `make install'.

change

add the following two lines:

BINDIR = ${HOME}/local/bin
MANDIR = ${HOME}/local/man/man1

build

make

Test run

$ rman -v
PolyglotMan v3.0.8 of $Date: 1999/08/10 00:41:55 $

rman -f html -r '%s.%s.html' ~/local/man/man1/rman.1

Installation

$ make install
rm -f /home/users/tongsun/local/bin/rman
cp rman /home/users/tongsun/local/bin
rm -f /home/users/tongsun/local/man/man1/rman.1
cp rman.1 /home/users/tongsun/local/man/man1

Run

rman -f html -r '%s.%s.html' ~/local/man/man1/rman.1

documented on: 2003.11.23 Sun