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author | Yorhel <git@yorhel.nl> | 2018-01-21 08:23:57 +0100 |
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committer | Yorhel <git@yorhel.nl> | 2018-01-21 08:23:57 +0100 |
commit | 8031a909891def82ca5a0698d2906257a294ffef (patch) | |
tree | 5c85b5fd297a711fba5ee3d145f438107f65025f | |
parent | 035538f156c0710c5c51552efe176271c655f7bd (diff) |
Some improvements to the about text + link to the new Arch man pages
-rwxr-xr-x | www/index.pl | 36 |
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/www/index.pl b/www/index.pl index f56bb5e..e9d8304 100755 --- a/www/index.pl +++ b/www/index.pl @@ -143,6 +143,7 @@ sub home { li; a href => 'http://linux.die.net/man/', 'die.net'; txt ' - Seems to be based on an RPM-based Linux distribution.'; end; li; a href => 'http://manpages.org/', 'manpages.org'; txt ' - Lots of mostly-nicely formatted man pages, no clue about source.'; end; li; a href => 'http://www.manpagez.com/', 'manpagez.com'; txt ' - Mac OS X, has some GTK-html and texinfo documentation as well.'; end; + li; a href => 'https://jlk.fjfi.cvut.cz/arch/manpages/dev', 'Arch Linux Man Pages'; end; li; a href => 'https://manpages.debian.org/', 'Debian Man Pages'; end; li; a href => 'https://www.dragonflybsd.org/cgi/web-man', 'DragonFlyBSD Man Pages'; end; li; a href => 'http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi', 'FreeBSD.org Man Pages'; end; @@ -162,22 +163,27 @@ sub about { h2 'Goal'; p; lit <<' _'; - The state of online indices of manual pages is a sad one. Existing sites - only offer you a single version of a man page: From one origin, and often - only in a single language. Most don't even tell you where the manual - actually originated from, making it very hard to determine whether the - manual you found actually applies to your situation and even harder to find - a manual from a specific system. Additionally, some sites render the manuals - in an unreadable way, don't correctly handle special formatting - like - tables - or don't correctly display non-ASCII characters. + The state of online indices of manual pages used to be a sad one. Existing + sites used to only offer you a single version of a man page: From one + origin, and often only in a single language. Most didn't even tell you where + the manual actually originated from, making it very hard to determine + whether the manual you found actually applied to your situation and even + harder to find a manual for a specific system. Additionally, some sites + rendered the manuals in an unreadable way, didn't correctly handle special + formatting - like tables - or didn't correctly display non-ASCII characters. <br /><br /> - Manned.org was created in order to improve this situation. This site aims to - index the manual pages from a variaty of systems, both old and new, and - allows you to browse through the various versions of a manual page to find - out how each system behaves. The manuals are stored in the database as - UTF-8, and are passed through <a - href="http://www.gnu.org/software/groff/">groff</a> to render them in - (mostly) the same way as they are displayed in your terminal. + Nowadays there are many good alternatives, but Manned.org was one of the + sites created in order to improve situation. This site aims to index the + manual pages from a variaty of systems, both old and new, and allows you to + browse through the various versions of a manual page to find out how each + system behaves. The manuals are stored in the database as UTF-8, and are + passed through <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/groff/">groff</a> to + render them in (mostly) the same way as they are displayed in your terminal. + <br /><br /> + This website is <a href="https://g.blicky.net/manned.git/">open source</a> + (MIT licensed) and written in a combination of Perl and Rust. The entire + PostgreSQL database is available for download (see "Database download" + below). _ end; |