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Re: [Groff] Unix Man Pages


From: J Robinson
Subject: Re: [Groff] Unix Man Pages
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 14:41:08 -0800 (PST)

Thanks for the replies, guys; groffer looks like just
the ticket.

What version of groff did it first appear in?
Thanks
jrobinson

--- Bernd Warken <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 10:05:34AM -0800, J Robinson
> wrote:
> > Suppose I had a list of pathnames to a system's
> man
> > pages (like /usr/lib/perl5/man/man3/POSIX.3.gz,
> > /usr/man/man3/mitem_visible.3x, etc.) What would
> be a
> > good cross *nix way to convert them to ascii?
> > 
> > I've found that even 
> > % man /usr/man/man3/mitem_visible.3x
> > doesn't work on freebsd, for example: it wants 
> > % man 3x mitem_visible 
> > but this could be ambiguous about which man page
> to
> > output.
> 
> Try `groffer mitem_visible.3x'.  `groffer' isn't
> perfect as a 
> replacement of `man', but I'm working on it.
> 
> Bernd Warken <address@hidden>
> 
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