Codebase list debian-goodies / 800305a
add dman manpage Antoine Beaupré 6 years ago
1 changed file(s) with 37 addition(s) and 0 deletion(s). Raw diff Collapse all Expand all
0 .TH DMAN 1 "21 April 2017"
1 .SH NAME
2 dman \- read man pages from manpages.debian.org
3 .SH SYNOPSIS
4 .B dman
5 .RB [ \-\-release ]
6 .I suite
7 .SH DESCRIPTION
8 .B dman
9 fetches a manpage from the online service manpages.debian.org and
10 displays it locally using
11 .RB man\ \-l.
12 If the
13 .B \--release
14 argument is provided, packages are fetched from that suite instead of
15 the default suite, found through
16 .RB /etc/lsb-release
17 or
18 .RB lsb_release\ \-c\ \-s.
19 .SH ENVIRONMENT
20 .B dman
21 will fetch translated pages first if the
22 .RB $ LANG
23 or
24 .RB $ LC_MESSAGES
25 environment variables are set. It will fallback to the default manpage
26 if the translated version is not found.
27 .SH AUTHOR
28 .B dman
29 was written by Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@ubuntu.com>, based on a
30 framework by Kees Cook <kees@ubuntu.com> and ported to the
31 .BR debiman
32 framework by Antoine Beaupré <anarcat@debian.org>. This manpage was
33 written by Antoine Beaupré.
34 .SH "SEE ALSO"
35 .BR man (1)
36 .BR debiman (1)