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Some improvements to the about text + link to the new Arch man pages

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Yorhel 2018-01-21 08:23:57 +01:00
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@ -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;