Re: man(1)

From: Bob Willcox <bob_at_immure.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 07:15:25 -0500
On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 01:53:44PM +0200, Simon L. Nielsen wrote:
> On 2004.08.04 10:35:32 +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 09:30:12AM +0200, Simon L. Nielsen wrote:
> >
> > > Well, it can be done without a patch... I use the following tcsh alias
> > > so I can just write 'manf foo.1' :
> > >
> > > groff -Wall -Tascii -te -mandoc !^ | less
> > >
> > You need to use ``-mtty-char -man'' to get the correct output.  (-man
> > or -mandoc doesn't matter.)
> 
> OK, I will update my alias :).
> 
> So the most correct command would be:
> 
> groff -Wall -Tascii -te -mtty-char -man

What's wrong with:

nroff -man

?



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