1hman(1) General Commands Manual hman(1)
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6 hman - browse the on-line manual pages
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9 hman [ -P browser ] [ -H host ] [ section ] name
10 hman [ -P browser ] [ -H host ] [ section ] [ index ]
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13 The hman script is an interface to man2html(1) that allows you to enter
14 man page requests at the command line and view the output in your
15 favourite browser. The behaviour reminds of that of man(1) so that
16 many people will be able to alias hman to man. If the browser used is
17 netscape, and an incarnation of netscape is running already, hman will
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23 Specify which browser (like lynx, elinks, firefox, or chromium-
24 browser, ...) to use. This option overrides the MANHTMLPAGER
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29 Specify from what host to get the man pages. This option over‐
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49 19 January 1998 hman(1)