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Re: [Groff] groffview shell script


From: Bernd Warken
Subject: Re: [Groff] groffview shell script
Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2001 04:45:19 +0100
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On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 11:38:02PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 12:22:19AM +0100, Bernd Warken wrote:
> > I'm using the `man -w' mechanism in groffview 0.2 to get the man-pages.
> 
> I'm not at all convinced that that's portable across implementations of
> man(1), although all the free ones I know of support it.
> 
Sigh.  Is it at least POSIX?
If `man -w' isn't available the $MANPATH or some standard path could be
used.  But I wouldn't implement more sophisticated searchings.

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The name `groffview' is quite ok, but it's a bit long.
Some shortcuts:
- groview
- groffiew
- groffiu
- groviu
- grovu

How about `groffer'?

Bernd Warken


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