Viewing man pages in browser

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Hi,
I'm running Knoppix's backtrack. It has a way of displaying man pages in a browser. you just spacify the browser, e.g. firefox, then the man page is displayed by firefox, instead of the unser-unfriendly text mode. Could someone refresh my memory? Thanks.

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Re: Viewing man pages in browser

unfortunately i don't the specific utility you are talking about, but until somebody can answer you, you can just google "man ...." as most man pages you will want are hosted somewhere. there will be some differences, but generally this works well for me.

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Re: Viewing man pages in browser

in gnome is possible typing man:command in the url bar.

in KDE I think Konqueror can do it through KIO slave, but I don't know. With a script or something may be possible:

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