Re: man(1)

From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 17:12:33 +0300
On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 06:50:56AM -0700, Steve Kargl wrote:
[...]
> What's wrong with a pipe?  My alias looks like
> 
> cat !* | eqn | tbl | nroff -mdoc | more
> 
Nothing wrong, it's correct as well.  This is basically what man(1)
actually does (try ``man -d'').  I personally use groff(1) because
I pass it the -ww option, which it then passes to troff(1) to display
all possible warnings.


Cheers,
-- 
Ruslan Ermilov
ru_at_FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer

Received on Wed Aug 04 2004 - 12:12:43 UTC

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