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- From: jdell@maggie.mit.edu (John Ellithorpe)
- Subject: Re: man pages
- In-Reply-To: lukeh@gnumath.rutgers.edu's message of 15 Dec 92 13:59:36 GMT
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- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 19:21:18 GMT
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- On 15 Dec 92 13:59:36 GMT, lukeh@gnumath.rutgers.edu (Luke Higgins) said:
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- > What is the format for man page and how can I read them so that they
- > make more sense (or print them out.) Any and all information would be
- > appreciated. Example: I have a file called preps which is a
- > pretty postscript processor and it has a man page, how do I read it
- > so that it looks nice?
-
- I'm not sure what the question is asking but I'll give a go at it. If you
- type: % man <command> you should be getting a plain text output which may or
- may not be formatted already. The files themselves are in troff/nroff format
- which have man pages macro extensions.
-
- If you want to print them out, I would suggest something like:
-
- % man <command> | lpr
-
- or something like that.
-
- Hope that was some help.
-
- John
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