From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 27 18:57:35 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1492537B401 for ; Wed, 27 Nov 2002 18:57:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FD0943E9C for ; Wed, 27 Nov 2002 18:57:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from owt.com (owt-207-41-94-232.owt.com [207.41.94.232]) by rutger.owt.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA13041; Wed, 27 Nov 2002 18:57:30 -0800 Message-ID: <3DE58619.5050805@owt.com> Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 18:57:29 -0800 From: Kent Stewart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, es-mx MIME-Version: 1.0 To: david Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FTP access via email (Was - OFF TOPIC - please help!!! etc...) References: <200211271907.07514.ph1@cogeco.ca> <04fc01c29682$e6cc0380$fa00a8c0@DaleCoportable> <200211272153.28655.ph1@cogeco.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG david wrote: > On Wednesday 27 November 2002 21:07, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: > >>From: "david" >>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