Re: [Groff] groffview shell script

[Colin Watson]

On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 03:23:21PM +0100, Bernd Warken wrote:
> Good idea, thank you :-)  Tho the xset output might not be reliable 
> everywhere it is a good starting point.  But I would shorten it to a 
> test on `grep /100dpi', such as
> 
> if -n "$DISPLAY"; then
>   if xset q | grep "/100dpi" >/dev/null; then resolution=100
>   else resolution=75
>   fi
>   ... -T X$resolution
> else
>   ...-T latin1 | less
> fi

man (from man-db) goes to some lengths to do better than -T latin1 |
less, since that isn't reliable everywhere (some locales need different
devices, some need different settings of LESSCHARSET, etc.). You could
probably translate some of its code to shell and use that.

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Colin Watson                                  address@hidden