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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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