Re: Man Pages in Text?

From: Barry Margolin (barmar_at_alum.mit.edu)
Date: 05/21/04

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    Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 13:00:52 -0400

    In article <qRhrc.3448$Tn6.584@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net>,
     Alan Connor <zzzzzz@xxx.yyy> wrote:

    > On Fri, 21 May 2004 02:13:35 -0400, Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>
    > wrote:
    > >
    > >
    > > In article <d9grc.4288$be.3593@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net>,
    > > Alan Connor <zzzzzz@xxx.yyy> wrote:
    > >
    > >> 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.
    > >
    > > That's exactly what catman does, isn't it?
    > >
    >
    > 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.

    Yes it is.

    >
    > Like I said above, I READ the manpage.

    I know you read it, I thought you didn't understand it.

    >
    > 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 :-)

    After you run catman, delete all the original nroff files. Man looks
    for the cat page first, and if it doesn't find it, it runs nroff on the
    source file. 

    -- 
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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