Sun Solaris manual pages
Before we started using this platform to operate the website terminalcult.org we had a custom made integration between our server and a server at the University of Alabama. This link was made to provide the people on this website with the option of looking at the manual pages from a Solaris box running in the University of Alabama datacenter.
As I understand some people got disappointed when we told them this option should not be in the new website. So after some discussion and looking into some of the code we decided to do some PHP coding and incorporate it. You can again look for manual pages from Sun Solaris by visiting the “About UNIX” page. Also in the right menu you will find a search option which will direct you to a man page.
The link between terminalcult and the University of Alabama is done via some PHP coding on our side and man-cgi part on the Solaris machine. Man-cgi is shell-sed-awk script which converts on the fly the output of the “man” command to HTML. Most of the work is done by Panagiotis Christias from the software lab at the national technical university of Athens, Jeff Glover over at SGI and David Adams from the University of Southampton.