Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 09:39:38 -0400 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> Cc: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: man(1) Message-ID: <20040804133938.GA3067@online.fr> In-Reply-To: <20040804073532.GA22846@ip.net.ua> References: <BAY8-F72aIQJxKgEmti001189bf@hotmail.com> <20040804042951.GA1371@online.fr> <20040804073012.GA685@arthur.nitro.dk> <20040804073532.GA22846@ip.net.ua>
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Ruslan Ermilov said on Aug 4, 2004 at 10:35:32: > On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 09:30:12AM +0200, Simon L. Nielsen wrote: > > On 2004.08.04 00:29:51 -0400, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > > I was wrong about calling it BSD man... it's GNU man, but a much older > > > version than what current linux systems ship. > > > > > > I can work on a patch for this specific feature when I get some time. > > > Before I start, is there any reason people may think this is a bad > > > idea? > > > > 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.) Well that kinds of proves my point... you expect new users to know all this? I myself have used something like "groff -Tascii -mandoc" but only after a few years of using unix. Rahul
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