Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 02:09:43 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: John Murphy <bigotfo@bigfoot.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is there a summary of man stuff? Message-ID: <14795.1463.279114.168033@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <58917114@toto.iv>
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John Murphy writes: > Bruce Petro wrote: > >1. Sending mail from mail.com does not wrap. I need > > to hit enter myself and wrap it. > (good) way to go... Yes, thanks for dealing with this! > >2. Mike wins the most helpful answer! See text below. > I wish I knew Sed that well... I wish I didn't :-(. If I were going to do this regularly, I'd probably do it as a perl script. > >5. One possible addition for someone - produce some summary=20 > > and subject-related html pages for this (or share where=20 > > there are some). > Install the doc distro. You then have the entire manual in many > languages and lots of other good stuff as well, all in html. Once you do that, if you feel like adding a summary, you can do it - and submit it, even. The problem with such a summary is that the set of available man pages is highly variable. The set in /usr/man may be fixed after you install, but the set in /usr/local should change every time you install or deinstall a package. That's harder to deal with. <mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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