Re: Man Pages in Text?

From: Alan Connor (zzzzzz_at_xxx.yyy)
Date: 05/21/04 

Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 07:03:50 GMT

On Fri, 21 May 2004 02:13:35 -0400, Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
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> In article <d9grc.4288$be.3593@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net>,
> Alan Connor <zzzzzz@xxx.yyy> wrote:
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>> I'd like to turn all of my manpages into text, uncompressed.
>>
>> Can I do this and still use man? I've gone through man man and
>> man catman, but don't see a way to do this.
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> That's exactly what catman does, isn't it?
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You misunderstand me. I want to *permanently* change all the man pages in my
MANPATH into un-compressed plain text.

To cut groff and gzip out of the loop completely.

That's not what catman does.

Like I said above, I READ the manpage.

>From man catman: Cat pages are generally much faster to display than the
original manual pages, but require extra storage space.

endquote

Note the word "extra". This is an adjunct to man, not a replacement for it.
(unless I am missing something, which would hardly be a novel situation :-)

AC