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- From: spp@buoy.cis.ufl.edu (Stephen P. Potter)
- Subject: Re: man pages
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- References: <Dec.15.08.59.36.1992.22495@gnumath.rutgers.edu> <JDELL.92Dec15142118@maggie.mit.edu>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 12:48:15 GMT
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- In article <JDELL.92Dec15142118@maggie.mit.edu> jdell@maggie.mit.edu (John Ellithorpe) writes:
- >On 15 Dec 92 13:59:36 GMT, lukeh@gnumath.rutgers.edu (Luke Higgins) said:
- >> 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, if you mean you have your own software that you got from FTP or something
- and compiled yourself, then you should create your own man directory and add
- it to your manpath, something along the lines of:
- setenv MANPATH "/usr/man:/local/man:$HOME/myman"
- Then, you can follow the steps above.
-
- Steve
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