man pages
man pages
Posted Sep 6, 2008 8:42 UTC (Sat) by paulj (subscriber, #341)In reply to: man pages by giraffedata
Parent article: Feature removal sparks Git flamewar
I wrote a replacement almost 10 years ago that is based on Lynx and can find pages locally or on the web, in a hierarchical structure.
You're describing the GNU info format and the Lynx-like 'pinfo' viewer. Try pinfo gcc sometime, or just pinfo to view all available. I think the GNOME help browser also can view GNU info docs.
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