Re: Man Pages in Text?

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

Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 20:44:30 GMT

On Fri, 21 May 2004 15:25:15 -0400, Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>
>
> In article <YKrrc.4677$be.2218@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net>,
> Alan Connor <zzzzzz@xxx.yyy> wrote:
>> As root, I ran catman 1, and it created the catpages, gzipped, in
>> /var/cache/man/cat1.
>
> gzipping the catpages must be a recent (perhaps GNU) feature, I don't
> think it was ever done when I used to administer Suns.
>

GNU often goes overboard, like they just can't leave good programs alone....

>>
>> (they survived a reboot, too)
>>
>> man -M /var/cache/man less yielded the man page for less in a blink,
>> but I couldn't edit standard input from gzip, so I gunzipped the file
>> /var/cache/man/cat1/less.1.gz and then did the man command above.
>>
>> Worked fine, though when I hit "v" in less to edit the file there was
>> quite a bit of junk there, though nothing like the amount in the
>> un-formatted man page.
>
> That's necessary to get things like underlining of keywords.
>
>> So I guess I'll have to write a sed script to remove the junk and
>> edit /etc/manpath.config, and change the perms/ownership on the
>> directory tree.
>
> Try "col -b".
>

Yes. Perfect. Thanks again.

AC

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