What program is needed to display a manual [Solved]

[Béèm]

With udf and udftools I got two manuals.
With a text editor they are pritty unreadable as they contain some formating code starting with a . (dot)
What program is to be used for such manuals (I tried man but that doesn't work)

[MU]

man2html

Mark

[Béèm]

Thank you, Mark.
It took me a moment to understand how to create the html doc, but it's done now, Bernard

[Pizzasgood]

For the record, you do something like this:
man2html dermanual.1 > dermanual.html

Just so people who see this don't have to ask

[Béèm]

You're right Pizzasgood, I should have mentioned it.
This indeed the way I did it, alltho it's not mentioned in the man2html help.

[Nathan F]

I've begun to do this with every program I compile, and place the results into /usr/share/doc. Then you can use the man command to view the manual.

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man myprogram

For programs that come with several man pages they can be placed into a subdirectory of /usr/share/doc, and then you will get an index with links to each page when you use man.

Nathan

[Dougal]

I've begun to do this with every program I compile, and place the results into /usr/share/doc. Then you can use the man command to view the manual.

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man myprogram

For programs that come with several man pages they can be placed into a subdirectory of /usr/share/doc, and then you will get an index with links to each page when you use man.

Nathan

Good thing you mentioned that, Nathan, I was thinking of asking Barry if additional html "man"-pages will be recognised.