Re: Servers for WWW/HTML?

Tony Sanders ([email protected])
Wed, 04 Aug 1993 11:35:38 -0500

> Does server software exist to produce HTML marked up (Unix?) manual pages
> on request? Presumably this sort of application would be generally useful, for
> example for individual hardware manufacturers, program manuals, PC manuals etc.
>
> In short, any type of on-line manual which has structured manual pages.
>
> I am sure that there are servers around the world which do this, but it
> would make sense if the software were distributed to take a load off the
> host machines, and also to speed up access for end users, who would access
> local rather than remote servers.
Yes there are several

http://www.bsdi.com/bsdi-man/
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/man/sunos.top.html
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/man/ultrix.top.html
...

for sample code:
http://www.bsdi.com/server/bsdi-man.pl
http://www.bsdi.com/server/sunman.pl

--sanders