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Meta-0.07
River stage zero No dependents
/ dbman_man.pl

NAME

dbman_man.pl - display a manual page from the Dbman database.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2001, 2002 Mark Veltzer; All rights reserved.

LICENSE

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA.

DETAILS

MANIFEST: dbman_man.pl
PROJECT: meta
VERSION: 0.11

SYNOPSIS

dbman_man.pl [options]

DESCRIPTION

This program displays manual pages stored in the Dbman database.

OPTIONS

help (type: bool, default: 0)

display help message

pod (type: bool, default: 0)

display pod options snipplet

man (type: bool, default: 0)

display manual page

quit (type: bool, default: 0)

quit without doing anything

gtk (type: bool, default: 0)

run a gtk ui to get the parameters

license (type: bool, default: 0)

show license and exit

show copyright and exit

description (type: bool, default: 0)

show description and exit

history (type: bool, default: 0)

show history and exit

display (type: enum, default: ascii)

what should I display ?

options: description - the description of the page troff - the troff version of the page ascii - the plain ascii text version of the page ps - the postscript version dvi - the dvi version html - the html version

minimum of [1] free arguments required no maximum limit on number of free arguments placed

BUGS

None.

AUTHOR

Name: Mark Veltzer
Email: mailto:veltzer@cpan.org
WWW: http://www.veltzer.org
CPAN id: VELTZER

HISTORY

0.00 MV import tests
0.01 MV dbman package creation
0.02 MV more thumbnail issues
0.03 MV website construction
0.04 MV improve the movie db xml
0.05 MV web site automation
0.06 MV SEE ALSO section fix
0.07 MV move tests to modules
0.08 MV download scripts
0.09 MV bring movie data
0.10 MV finish papers
0.11 MV teachers project

SEE ALSO

Compress::Zlib(3), Meta::Info::Enum(3), Meta::Projects::Dbman::Page(3), Meta::Tool::Less(3), Meta::Utils::Opts::Opts(3), Meta::Utils::Output(3), Meta::Utils::System(3), strict(3)

TODO

-display the man page nice.

-use the PAGER variable to display the man page.

-use envrionment variables to control connection to the database.

-when getting multiple matches on the name (could happen): do not display the manual page but instead display option (with numerical index with them) and let the user choose which one he wants.