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- From: mikey@ontek.com (euphausia superba)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
- Subject: Re: man pages
- Keywords: boring
- Message-ID: <2204@ontek.com>
- Date: 16 Dec 92 22:00:05 GMT
- References: <Dec.15.08.59.36.1992.22495@gnumath.rutgers.edu>
- Organization: Ontek Corporation -- Laguna Hills, California
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- In comp.unix.questions, lukeh@gnumath.rutgers.edu (Luke Higgins) writes:
- |
- | 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?
- |
- | Thanks!!
- | Luke
- | lukeh@gnumath.rutgers.edu
-
- I use this script to print man pages which aren't in the
- usual place. Plop it somewhere in your $PATH and invoke
- it with the name of the file the man page is in.
-
- #! /bin/sh
- echo -n "Reformatting page. Wait..."
- tbl $* | nroff -man > /tmp/mman.$$
- page /tmp/mman.$$
- rm /tmp/mman.$$
-
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