*- On 12 Jun, Carl Mummert wrote about "Re: default ungziped /usr/doc/*/* ? " >>I am wondering about way to grep or to view with editor /usr/doc/*/* files. >>Of course, these files are gziped, according to debian policy. >>Is there any way to choose to install these docs in ungziped as default? >>I can ungzip these, but also want to leave these under control of package >>manager. > > I am uploading here a small, hackish perl script that, along with some > apache configuration changes, will allow you to view the compressed > files in http://your-machine/doc as if they were not comrpessed. >
The dwww package already does all this and more. Check it out. Package: dwww Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: doc Installed-Size: 169 Maintainer: Jim Pick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Version: 1.4.3.4-0.2 Depends: httpd, man, perl, libc6 Recommends: info2www, menu (>= 0.11) Suggests: lynx Description: Read all on-line documentation via WWW dwww lets you read all install on-line documentation via a local WWW server. When possible, it converts the documentation to HTML. You need both a WWW server and a WWW browser. -- Brian --------------------------------------------------------------------- Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis ---------------------------------------------------------------------