Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 09:30:12 +0200 From: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: man(1) was: HEADS UP: tar -l is now (intentionally) broken. Message-ID: <20040804073012.GA685@arthur.nitro.dk> In-Reply-To: <20040804042951.GA1371@online.fr> References: <BAY8-F72aIQJxKgEmti001189bf@hotmail.com> <20040804042951.GA1371@online.fr>
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--yrj/dFKFPuw6o+aM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2004.08.04 00:29:51 -0400, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > Evan Dower said on Aug 3, 2004 at 14:05:10: > > >And it's worth noting that minor incompatibilities like this just > > >serve to annoy new users (which usually means users from linux-land). > > >For example, it's annoying that BSD man can't read a manpage by > > >specifying the full path to a filename (eg, man ./foo.1). > > > > Yeah... Why is that? It seems like it would be awfully useful to read m= an > > pages without installing them. > > 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 --=20 Simon L. Nielsen FreeBSD Documentation Team --yrj/dFKFPuw6o+aM Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBEJCDh9pcDSc1mlERAsprAJ4vps94PJZFZAo0vT6vSWHUg/dcZgCfZeYz GF+1pO0L6KGr/WiQ5JCECF0= =R8Mt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --yrj/dFKFPuw6o+aM--
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