From 5194ed95cfbb53428731227c28f49d5ec8e1e0da Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Yorhel
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
+ 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 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.
+ formatting - like tables - or didn't correctly display non-ASCII
+ characters.
Nowadays there are many good alternatives, but Manned.org was one of the
sites created in order to improve that situation. This site aims to index
@@ -382,9 +383,11 @@ TUWF::get '/info/about' => sub {
/<name>[.<section>]/man/<system>/<name>[.<section>]
- Be warned that the download server may not be terribly reliable, so it is
- advisable to use a client that supports resumption of partial downloads. See
- wget's -c or curl's -C.
+ Be warned that the download server may not be terribly fast or reliable,
+ so it is advisable to use a client that supports resumption of partial
+ downloads. See wget's -c or
+ curl's -C.
The database schema is "documented" at schema.sql
in the git repo. Note that these dumps don't constitute a stable API and,
while this won't happen frequently, incompatible schema changes or Postgres
- major version bumps may occur.
+ major version bumps will occassionally occur.