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Date:      Wed, 4 Aug 2004 07:15:25 -0500
From:      Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com>
To:        "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: man(1)
Message-ID:  <20040804121525.GA2273@luke.immure.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040804115343.GC41839@eddie.nitro.dk>
References:  <BAY8-F72aIQJxKgEmti001189bf@hotmail.com> <20040804042951.GA1371@online.fr> <20040804073012.GA685@arthur.nitro.dk> <20040804073532.GA22846@ip.net.ua> <20040804115343.GC41839@eddie.nitro.dk>

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On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 01:53:44PM +0200, Simon L. Nielsen wrote:
> On 2004.08.04 10:35:32 +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 09:30:12AM +0200, Simon L. Nielsen wrote:
> >
> > > Well, it can be done without a patch... I use the following tcsh alias
> > > so I can just write 'manf foo.1' :
> > >
> > > groff -Wall -Tascii -te -mandoc !^ | less
> > >
> > You need to use ``-mtty-char -man'' to get the correct output.  (-man
> > or -mandoc doesn't matter.)
> 
> OK, I will update my alias :).
> 
> So the most correct command would be:
> 
> groff -Wall -Tascii -te -mtty-char -man

What's wrong with:

nroff -man

?



-- 
Bob Willcox                   Serocki's Stricture:
bob@immure.com                  Marriage is always a bachelor's last option.
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