Hello,

On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 7:54 AM, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> severity 335411 wishlist
> tags 335411 help
> thanks
>
> On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 11:50:07PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote:
>> LI Daobing wrote:
>> > when I use `man -Hfirefox man' to see manpage in firefox, I can't see
>> > the image. I think man delete the images right after the browser return.
>>
>> I just saw the same... it looks like the whole /tmp/<tempdir> goes missing
>> the moment the browser is forked.
>
> I really can't see any obvious way to fix this. I don't think it's good
> to leave temporary file litter lying around, and yet, when you use
> -Hfirefox (particularly if you already have firefox running so that it
> uses the remote protocol), firefox returns control before it loads the
> images. I'm afraid I don't see a sensible way for man to do anything
> about this, short perhaps of an environment variable that would let you
> stop it deleting temporary files, but then the user would have to clean
> those up by hand which isn't very appealing either.
>
> I'm just going to downgrade this to wishlist for now, and if anyone has
> any bright ideas then they can let me know ...
>
How about embed the images into html?


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Best Regards,
 LI Daobing



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