[maemo-developers] Command Line Club - please join / interactive man pages project (dialog + shell)

[From: Andrew Daviel]

On Sat, 19 Jul 2008, Darius Jack wrote:

> would welcome your advice on how to install interactive man pages on 770,

I wrote a trivial thing called "bzman", which is basically just:
/usr/bin/man =
#!/bin/sh
LESSOPEN="|bzip2 -cdfq %s"; export LESSOPEN
exec less -is "/usr/local/bzman/$1"

Since my pager of choice is "less" when running "man" on my desktop, 
I get something that behaves the same (run up a manpage, search for 
something). It can't handle entries in multiple sections, though ("man 1 
sleep" vs. "man 3 sleep")

I chose bzip compression as it's slightly better than gzip, but perhaps 
it wasn't worth the trouble - "disk" space is't really that tight on the 
tablet for a few kb of manpages, and one can always use the SD card.

http://andrew.triumf.ca/N810/repository/dists/chinook/user/binary-armel/bzman-0.5.deb


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Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada