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 the non-httpd version of
              lynx, or sensible-browser if lynx cannot be found.

       -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)