NAME

       hman - browse the on-line manual pages

SYNOPSIS

       hman [ -P browser ] [ -H host ] [ section ] name
       hman [ -P browser ] [ -H host ] [ section ] [ index ]

DESCRIPTION

       The  hman script is an interface to man2html(1) that allows you to enter man page requests at the command
       line and view the output in your favourite browser.  The behaviour reminds of that of man(1) so that many
       people will be able to alias hman to man.  If the  browser  used  is  netscape,  and  an  incarnation  of
       netscape is running already, hman will pass the request to the existing browser.

OPTIONS

       -P  browser
              Specify  which  browser  (like  lynx, xmosaic, arena, chimera, netscape, amaya, ...) to use.  This
              option overrides the MANHTMLPAGER environment variable.  The default is sensible-browser.
              A special value lynxcgi can be used for the non-httpd version  of  lynx,  but  this  requires  the
              lynx(1) command to be installed and approprietly configured.

       -H  host
              Specify  from  what  host to get the man pages.  This option overrides the MANHTMLHOST environment
              variable.  The default is localhost.

ENVIRONMENT

       MANHTMLPAGER
              The default browser to use is selected using this environment variable.

       MANHTMLHOST
              The default host to use is selected using this environment variable.

SEE ALSO

       man(1), man2html(1), arena(1), lynx(1), sensible-browser(1), netscape(1), xmosaic(1), glimpse(1)

       http://www.mcom.com/newsref/std/x-remote.html

                                                 19 January 1998                                         hman(1)