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Re: infinite page length?
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Ralph Corderoy |
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Re: infinite page length? |
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Thu, 30 Apr 2020 08:37:38 +0100 |
Hi jkl,
> I don't understand how man(1) suppresses pagination. Is there any
> simple trick to viewing -ms documents in nroff without page
> boundaries?
Search the mailing list archives. IIRC something like this works.
$ printf '%s\n' '.pl 1000i' .nf `seq 314` '.pl 1v' |
> nroff
Set the page length very high, then shorten it once you know the
required length.
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Cheers, Ralph.