hman(1)                                              General Commands Manual                                              hman(1)

NAME
       hman - browse the on-line manual pages

SYNOPSIS
       hman [ -P browser ] [ -H host ] [ section ] name
       hman [ -P browser ] [ -H host ] [ section ] [ index ]

DESCRIPTION
       The hman script is an interface to man2html(1) that allows you to enter man page requests at the command line and view the
       output  in your favourite browser.  The behaviour reminds of that of man(1) so that many people will be able to alias hman
       to man.  If the browser used is netscape, and an incarnation of netscape is running already, hman will pass the request to
       the existing browser.

OPTIONS
       -P  browser
              Specify which browser (like lynx, xmosaic, arena, chimera, netscape, amaya, ...) to use.  This option overrides the
              MANHTMLPAGER environment variable.  The default is sensible-browser.
              A special value lynxcgi can be used for the non-httpd version of lynx, but this requires the lynx(1) command to  be
              installed and approprietly configured.

       -H  host
              Specify  from what host to get the man pages.  This option overrides the MANHTMLHOST environment variable.  The de‐
              fault is localhost.

ENVIRONMENT
       MANHTMLPAGER
              The default browser to use is selected using this environment variable.

       MANHTMLHOST
              The default host to use is selected using this environment variable.

SEE ALSO
       man(1), man2html(1), arena(1), lynx(1), sensible-browser(1), netscape(1), xmosaic(1), glimpse(1)

       http://www.mcom.com/newsref/std/x-remote.html

                                                         19 January 1998                                                  hman(1)