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Updated: July 2017
 
 

w3mman (1)

Name

w3mman - line reference manuals via w3m(1)

Synopsis

w3mman [ -M path ] [ section ] [ page ]
w3mman [ -M path ] -k keyword
w3mman -l file

Description

W3MMAN(1)                   General Commands Manual                  W3MMAN(1)



NAME
       w3mman - an interface to the on-line reference manuals via w3m(1)

SYNOPSIS
       w3mman [ -M path ] [ section ] [ page ]
       w3mman [ -M path ] -k keyword
       w3mman -l file

DESCRIPTION
       w3mman  is  a  Perl script that uses w3m(1) to serve as a pager for on-
       line reference manuals.

OPTIONS
       A summary of options is included below.

       -M path
              Specify path as alternative MANPATH to use.

       -k keyword
              Specify keyword.

       -l file
              Specify a file.

ENVIRONMENT
       Two variables are available for debugging.

       W3MMAN_W3M
              If W3MMAN_W3M is set, its value is used instead of w3m.

       W3MMAN_MAN
              If W3MMAN_MAN is set, its value is used instead of /usr/bin/man.

FILES
       /usr/lib/w3m/cgi-bin/w3mman2html.cgi
              manual page to HTML convertor.


ATTRIBUTES
       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:


       +---------------+------------------+
       |ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE  |
       +---------------+------------------+
       |Availability   | web/browser/w3m  |
       +---------------+------------------+
       |Stability      | Uncommitted      |
       +---------------+------------------+
SEE ALSO
       man(1), w3m(1).

AUTHOR
       This manual page was written by Fumitoshi UKAI <ukai@debian.or.jp>, for
       the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).



NOTES
       This     software     was    built    from    source    available    at
       https://java.net/projects/solaris-userland.   The  original   community
       source                was                downloaded                from
       http://http.debian.net/debian/pool/main/w/w3m/w3m_0.5.3.orig.tar.gz

       Further information about this software can be found on the open source
       community website at https://packages.qa.debian.org/w/w3m.html.



                                  2016-07-13                         W3MMAN(1)