On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 09:39:38AM -0400, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > Ruslan Ermilov said on Aug 4, 2004 at 10:35:32: > > On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 09:30:12AM +0200, Simon L. Nielsen wrote: > > > On 2004.08.04 00:29:51 -0400, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > > > I was wrong about calling it BSD man... it's GNU man, but a much older > > > > version than what current linux systems ship. > > > > > > > > I can work on a patch for this specific feature when I get some time. > > > > Before I start, is there any reason people may think this is a bad > > > > idea? > > > > > > 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.) > > > Well that kinds of proves my point... you expect new users to know all > this? I myself have used something like "groff -Tascii -mandoc" but > only after a few years of using unix. > No, I don't even expect new users to worry about formatting the manpage source files like ``man /usr/src/bin/cat/cat.1''. ;) And someone could put this hint into the FreeBSD fortune file. I'm not opposed to the idea of man(1) being able to work with a pathname arguments, if the patch is small. Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov ru_at_FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer
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