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- From: sowa@amdew.llnl.gov (Erik C. Sowa)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
- Subject: Re: man -t
- Message-ID: <SOWA.92Sep1122743@amdew.llnl.gov>
- Date: 1 Sep 92 19:27:42 GMT
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- In-reply-to: pcwood@romulus's message of 1 Sep 92 16:10:55 GMT
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- >>>>> "Paul" == Paul Wood <pcwood@romulus> writes:
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- Paul> When printing man pages with the man -t option, whomever is logged
- Paul> into the console gets logged out as postscript gets restarted (I
- Paul> believe). Has anyone else had this problem? What can be done to
- Paul> prevent it?
-
- I have the following line in my .cshrc:
-
- alias myman 'tbl \!* | eqn | ptroff -man -t | open'
-
- This makes (e.g.)
- myman /usr/local/man/man1/someprogram.1
- open a properly typeset man page for someprogram in Preview, which can
- be printed if necessary. man -t may be looking for a typesetter; ptroff
- rather than troff is the workaround.
-
- --
- erik sowa (sowa@amdew.llnl.gov)
-