manpage-preview for ports

Chris Pressey cpressey at catseye.mine.nu
Wed Mar 17 15:45:02 PST 2004


On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 15:49:08 -0800
Chris Pressey <cpressey at catseye.mine.nu> wrote:

> On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 00:34:20 +0100
> Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier at fillmore-labs.com> wrote:
> 
> > Raphael H. Becker wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi */*,
> > > 
> > > sometimes I'd like to read manpages or docs of ports/packages but
> > > without the need to build and install the complete ports first. 
> > 
> > Try <http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi>
> > 
> > -Oliver
> 
> Err... that looks like it has man pages for every imaginable base
> system in it... but does it have manpages for *ports* in it?  :)
> 
> -Chris

My bad, it does.  But only for 5.2-RELEASE, so I didn't immediately see
it.  Sorry for the noise.

-Chris


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