Pdf generation howto. To generate nice pdf-documents from the manpages, LaTeX needs to be installed. The flow is: manpage -[rman]-> tex -[LaTeX]-> dvi -[dvipdf]-> pdf. syntax: rman -f LaTeX manFile.N > file.tex latex file.tex (output is file.dvi) dvipdf file.dvi (output is file.pdf) presently, this cannot be automated due to the lack of LaTeX on the servers. to read these fabulous manpages without actually installing them into a known directory, simply use the command: MANPATH=/vobs/linux/linx/doc man linx.h or why not use an alias, put this in .bashrc: alias _man="MANPATH=/vobs/linux/linx/doc man" and issue _man linx_types.h /w