NAME

       dman - download and read manpages from the internet, rather than the local system

SYNOPSIS

       dman [TOPIC]

DESCRIPTION

       dman  is a script that remotely retrieves manpages from http://manpages.ubuntu.com, but reads them on the
       local system.

       This is often useful to read a manpage of a utility that you do not have installed on the local system.

       It will cycle through each manpage section available for a given TOPIC.

EXAMPLE

        dman open

CAVEATS

       Note that the network operations will be a little slower than perhaps you are used  to,  when  reading  a
       manpage.   Also note that you must be internet-connected, and able to access manpages.ubuntu.com for this
       utility to be useful.  Finally, the algorithm that dman uses to retrieve  remote  pages  is  considerably
       simpler than that of man(1).

SEE ALSO

       man(1)

AUTHOR

       This manpage and the utility was written by Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@ubuntu.com> for Ubuntu systems (but
       may be used by others).  Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under  the
       terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3 published by the Free Software Foundation.

       On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-
       licenses/GPL, or on the web at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt.