Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 21:30:22 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: jmutter@netwalk.com Cc: chris@calldei.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Man pages aren't formatting correctly - Message-ID: <199904022030.VAA03172@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 02 Apr 1999 01:27:51 CDT." <Pine.BSF.4.05.9904020125030.44361-200000@insomnia.local.net>
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> :> Can anyone help with this one? > :> > :> bash-2.02$ man csh > :> The is a command language interpreter incorporating a history > :> mechanism (see job control facilities (see interactive file name > :> and user name completion (see and a C-like syntax. It is used > :> both as an interactive login shell and a shell script command > :> processor. If the first argument (argument 0) to the shell is > :> then this is a login shell. A login shell also can be specified > :> by invoking the shell with the flag as the only argument. The > :> rest of the flag arguments are interpreted as follows: This flag > :> forces a ``break'' from option processing, causing any further > :> <snipped - you get the point> > : > : Man pages are always formatted justified as shown above. > : > Maybe I should have included the entire page, I didn't think that that > would be necessary. The problem is that these pages are missing > things like newlines, highlighting, tabs, etc... Everything that makes > them readable. > > See the attached 'csh.manpage' for an example. > > Thanks again, > > Jim [.....] The whole page was probably a bit too much ;-} I don't know what your problem is, but the page looks like it's been processed with the wrong macro package. Check out the difference when you cd /usr/share/man/man8 gzcat ppp.8.gz | groff -Tascii | more as distinct from the more expected cd /usr/share/man/man8 gzcat ppp.8.gz | groff -Tascii -mandoc | more -- Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org> <brian@FreeBSD.org> <brian@OpenBSD.org> <http://www.Awfulhak.org> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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