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Date:      Mon, 3 Dec 2001 15:19:11 +0200
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@blarg.net>
Cc:        freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How do I unformat a man page like /tmp/man.1?
Message-ID:  <20011203151911.G60143@sunbay.com>
In-Reply-To: <mcelmcn7ux.lmc@localhost.localdomain>
References:  <mcelmcn7ux.lmc@localhost.localdomain>

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On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 10:19:34PM -0800, Gary W. Swearingen wrote:
> How to I do "man" on a out-of-place man page like /tmp/man.1?
> 
>     groff -mandoc -Tlatin1 /tmp/man.1 | less
> 
> doesn't work as advertised in groff(1). It's not bad with some
> pages, but VERY bad for others.
> 
What exactly is bad?  I have a nice output with the above
command with the 8859-1 compatible charset.


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