Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 18:57:29 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: david <ph1@cogeco.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FTP access via email (Was - OFF TOPIC - please help!!! etc...) Message-ID: <3DE58619.5050805@owt.com> References: <OF6A965468.D0D3DDD4-ON80256C7E.00829377@pearsontv.com> <200211271907.07514.ph1@cogeco.ca> <04fc01c29682$e6cc0380$fa00a8c0@DaleCoportable> <200211272153.28655.ph1@cogeco.ca>
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david wrote: > On Wednesday 27 November 2002 21:07, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: > >>From: "david" <ph1@cogeco.ca> >>Subject: Re: FTP access via email (Was - OFF TOPIC - please help!!! >>etc...) >> >> >>>On Wednesday 27 November 2002 18:48, Andrew.Hodgson@lpc.tv wrote: >>> >>>>Thanks for sending me the sh man page Paul (Beard) - unfortunately >>> >>it was >> >> >>>>corrupted, with strange formatting and characters. This looks >>> >>similar to >> >> >>>>when I have tried to pipe a manpage to a file, e.g. >>>> >>>># man sh > ~/sh.txt >>> >>>Try more sh.txt >> >>Ummm, r u [sh]ure? >> >>#man sh > more sh.man.txt >>Formatting page, please wait...Done. >>No manual entry for sh.man.txt > > > No, I am saying if you pipe the output of man sh to a file you will need to > use more or less to view it because of the bold formatting, etc. > > Right? So, feed it through col. If you do man man | col -b You don't have the bold stuff. Kent > > >>OK, I'm a dumb shell scripter anyway, try this: >> >>#man sh > more ~./sh.man.txt >>Unknown user: .. >> >>Hmmm, maybe csh is as brain dead as they say: >> >>#sh >> >>$ man sh > more sh.txt >>No manual entry for sh.txt >> >>And, just to make sure I didn't misunderstand >>your post: >> >>$more sh.txt >>sh.txt: No such file or directory >> >>Maybe Paul Beard would send us his >>groff-troff magic, and end my curiosity here.... >> -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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