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From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Sat, 22 Jan 2011 00:18:28 -0800, Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 06:43:23AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
> > Just see "man ports" for a list of all targets.
> 
> 	Ye Gods.  The ports manpage is almost unreadable.  Not to
> 	mention full of non-ASCII bytes. 

Those should be the representation of text attributes,
rendered according to the terminals's capabilities
(e. g. reverse, bold, underline). They should not be
displayed as-is.

What $PAGER are you using? It should be more or less
"more" or "less". :-)

Try "man -Pless ports" and display should be fine.

To get a readable PDF output of the manpage, use

	% zcat `man -w ports` | groff -Tps -dpaper=a4 -P-pa4 -mandoc | ps2pdf - ports.pdf
	% xpdf ports.pdf

Select different format than A4 if needed, and PDF viewer
respectively. Even

	% zcat `man -w ports` | groff -Tps -dpaper=a4 -P-pa4 -mandoc | gv -

does work, omitting the PDF and "presistent result file" steps.

In my opinion, "man ports" gives a good overview about
all the targets common to ports, as well as the environmental
variables that control the work of "make" in relation to
the ports collection.




-- 
Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...