Manual: hman

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NAME
       hman - browse the on-line manual pages

SYNOPSIS
       hman [ -P browser ] [ -H host ] [ section ] name
       hman [ -P browser ] [ -H host ] [ section ] [ index ]

DESCRIPTION
       The  hman  script  is  an interface to man2html(1) that allows you to enter man page requests at the command line and
       view the output in your favourite browser.  The behaviour reminds of that of man(1) so that many people will be	able
       to  alias hman to man.  If the browser used is netscape, and an incarnation of netscape is running already, hman will
       pass the request to the existing browser.

OPTIONS
       -P  browser
	      Specify which browser (like lynx, xmosaic, arena, chimera, netscape, amaya, ...) to use.	 This  option  over‐
	      rides the MANHTMLPAGER environment variable.  The default is sensible-browser.
	      A	 special  value lynxcgi can be used for the non-httpd version of lynx, but this requires the lynx(1) command
	      to be installed and approprietly configured.

       -H  host
	      Specify from what host to get the man pages.  This option overrides the MANHTMLHOST environment variable.	 The
	      default is localhost.

ENVIRONMENT
       MANHTMLPAGER
	      The default browser to use is selected using this environment variable.

       MANHTMLHOST
	      The default host to use is selected using this environment variable.

SEE ALSO
       man(1), man2html(1), arena(1), lynx(1), sensible-browser(1), netscape(1), xmosaic(1), glimpse(1)

       http://www.mcom.com/newsref/std/x-remote.html

						       19 January 1998						     hman(1)