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To: Giorgos Keramidas <charon@labs.gr>,
	Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG>
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Subject: Re: How do I unformat a man page like /tmp/man.1?
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From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen)
Date: 03 Dec 2001 11:04:52 -0800
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Giorgos Keramidas <charon@labs.gr> writes:

> On 2001-12-02 22:19:34, Gary W. Swearingen wrote:
> > How to I do "man" on a out-of-place man page like /tmp/man.1?
> > 
> >     groff -mandoc -Tlatin1 /tmp/man.1 | less
> 
> I use a similar command:
> 
> 	% nroff -mandoc man.1 | more
> 
> > doesn't work as advertised in groff(1). It's not bad with some
> > pages, but VERY bad for others.
> 
> What problems do you have with the command you quoted?
> On which manpages?

This command

    zcat  /usr/share/man/man5/named.conf.5.gz | nroff -mandoc  | less

gives dozens of these lines with increasing line numbers (along with
occasional spurts of good output):

    mdoc warning: Empty input line #19

The handful of other man pages I've tried it on look OK, except that
about 5% of the lines end with a reverse-video "<AD>".

The "nroff -mandoc" command gives the same results.

This is in an xterm with $TERM = xterm-xf86-v32.

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