Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 09:07:46 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Studded <Studded@dal.net>, laskavy@gambit.msk.su Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Add to FAQ? How to produce an ASCII man page? Message-ID: <19980319090746.29812@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <351026B9.B86BD0F5@dal.net>; from Studded on Wed, Mar 18, 1998 at 11:55:38AM -0800 References: <199803181630.TAA25999@Peru.gambit.msk.su> <351026B9.B86BD0F5@dal.net>
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On Wed, 18 March 1998 at 11:55:38 -0800, Studded wrote: > laskavy@gambit.msk.su wrote: >> >> Dear documentation project members! >> >> I think >> >> man TOPIC | col -b > TOPIC.man.ascii >> >> is a FAQ > > As Annelise alluded to it's in her excellent new users tutorial on > http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/newuser/newuser.html. If you mean that > you'd like to see this question in the FAQ itself, we hope to be > restructuring the FAQ/Handbook/Tutorial system so that the information > you need is easier to find. We will definitely take your suggestion into > consideration when making those plans. :) Just out of interest, who are "we"? Why is laskavy excluded? I see (and welcome) movement afoot to restructure the handbook, but I didn't realise that posts had been appointed. Anyway, you might also consider the following way to format a man page in PostScript, for example ls(1): $ zcat /usr/share/man/man1/ls.1.gz | groff -mandoc > ls.1.ps or $ zcat /usr/share/man/man1/ls.1.gz | groff -mandoc | lpr Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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