NAME

linux-help - CGI program for looking up help text, e.g. man and info pages on localhost

DESCRIPTION

A single source for looking up help via a browser on linux systems.

It will search for and render man pages, info pages and perl pod pages, as well as any html pages you want. It is slower than systems like dwww because it doesn't cache and searches dynamically - but you never have to update anything or pre-index because of this dynamism.

(Note that if you enter a New Term you don't have to change Search/Show to New Term - linux-help will figure it out.)

You will need to place linux-help in your cgi-bin directory and change the \$DB_FILE file to a path and filename of your choice. Non-Debian users will have to change the paths stored in the \$PATH_* variables. See the beginning of the code for these.

README

CGI program for looking up help text, e.g. man, info and pod pages on localhost. It is slower than systems like dwww because it doesn't cache and searches dynamically - but you never have to update anything or pre-index because of this dynamism.

PREREQUISITES

strict CGI CGI::QuickForm DB_File Fcntl File::Find HTML::Entities Storable URI::Escape

COREQUISITES

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) Mark Summerfield 1999. All Rights Reserved. May be used/distributed under the GPL. Email <summer@perlpress.com> with 'linux-help' in the subject line.

OSNAMES

Linux

SCRIPT CATEGORIES

CGI Web