1. Using netscape to read docs.html
First, some background for my question:
Much documentation is now provided in html format (often, sadly,
instead of, rather than in addition to, a man page) and so some
browser is needed to read it.
(Aside: There's an excellent editorial in the October, 1997 issue
of _Unix Review_, p5. I fully agree with the part about
documentation.)
Not all of us have a full-time network connection. Some of us even
pay for connect time.
Is there any way to run netscape so that it doesn't trigger dialing
under ppp -auto when all I want to do is to run it on a local file?
E.g. "netscape file://localhost/...." doesn't seem to simply go to
the local file, it triggers ppp to dial my ISP. Lynx doesn't do
that, but if the documentation includes any images, that isn't a
very good alternative, is it? Aside from the fact that it creates
an unnecessary connection and ties my phone up for a short while
unnecessarily, it is a nuisance because it delays viewing the
documentation.
I'm running Netscape Gold 3.01/U.S. under FreeBSD 2.1.5 and, of
course, XFree86--whatever version came with 2.1.5.
I have no idea if netscape 4.x does the same thing--I haven't had
time to figure out what to do about (as I recall) all of the shared
libraries that it can't find.
And, yes, I've tried running "netscape -help" and didn't find
anything useful (except how to find which version I'm running).
I don't think that I've ever found anything useful in netscape's
on-line documentation. But then that's even more of the same,
isn't it? Ties up my phone, runs up my connect-time bill, etc.
So I'm afraid that I haven't the patience to spend a lot of time
trying to decipher the layout of their help pages.
One must wonder if netscape (and others) get kick-backs from
all of the ISPs in the world for inflating their connect-time
income... :(
Oh--incidentally: In case anyone else hates verbose option flags
(e.g. netscape -version) as much as I do, I did find by experiment
that it will also accept netscape -v and netscape -h. I haven't
tried anything else.
Thanks in advance for any help. I hope I can keep up with the
newsgroup enough to find any responses.
--
Best regards,
Charlie "Older than dirt" Sorsby Los Alamos, NM "I'm the NRA!"
2. solaris x86
3. Output from cgi scripts displaying as text not html formatted text
4. RF7.2 on P4 Intel 845 - ASUS P4B
5. Serving text/x-server-parsed-html not text/html
6. Problem with SCO Enterprise
7. Put Docs in Plain Text, not HTML
8. New Sun policy: NO SUPPORT for x86 EA2
9. KDE2: Konqueror won't display html.
10. konqueror: display local directories in HTML environment
11. Reading HTML docs?
12. Converting linked HTML docs to one doc - how?
13. Using Andrew to create and edit HTML docs
by