Reading the handbook from console

Sabine Baer baerks at t-online.de
Thu Jan 10 19:24:15 UTC 2013


On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 12:37:06PM -0600, Scott Eberl wrote:
> I went ahead and installed the FreeBSD handbook onto my system and I
> was able to find it on disk per the motd notes but I'm wondering if
> there is a preferred method for reading these since they are in html
> format. I tried w3m and lynx and it looks like they are both not
> installed. Is there something i'm missing for reading these or do I
> just need to install a cli browser?

Why won't you install one of the text-browsers?
portmaster www/lynx (or another one) ist not a big thing and if you
install a terminal multiplexer as well you can change between the
handbook and the applying in a very simple way.

Sabine

-- 
Good fences make good neighbours.                           (N.N.)


More information about the freebsd-questions mailing list