man dwww (Commandes) - access documentation via WWW

NAME

dwww - access documentation via WWW

SYNOPSIS

http://localhost/dwww/index.html

dwww

dwww programname | packagename

DESCRIPTION

A typical Linux system has documentation in many formats (manual pages, info files, READMEs, and so on). dwww makes it possible to access all of these via the same interface, a WWW browser. This makes it easier to use the documentation.

To use dwww, load the URL given in the SYNOPSIS. If you have a web browser installed, you can also just run the dwww command which loads the URL. If BROWSER environment variable is set, dwww uses sensible-browser(1) to load the URL. Otherwise, dwww first tries to use browser specified by DWWW_BROWSER or DWWW_X11_BROWSER configuration variable (cf. dwww(8)), than will use sensible-browser(1) command.

If optional argument programname or packagename is specified, dwww will search all documentation related to given program or package.

ENVIRONMENT

BROWSER
Program used to load the above mentioned URL.

FILES

/etc/dwww/dwww.conf
Configuration file for dwww.

SEE ALSO

AUTHOR

Lars Wirzenius <liw@iki.fi>. Modified by Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>.

Bugs should be reported via the Debian Bug Tracking System at <URL:http://bugs.debian.org/>.

dwww is licensed via the GNU General Public License. While it has been written for Debian, porting it to other systems is strongly encouraged.