From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Dec 4 0:18:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (whale.sunbay.crimea.ua [212.110.138.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2315237B41A for ; Tue, 4 Dec 2001 00:18:37 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ru@localhost) by whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (8.11.6/8.11.2) id fB48Gx128192; Tue, 4 Dec 2001 10:16:59 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from ru) Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 10:16:59 +0200 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: "Gary W. Swearingen" Cc: Giorgos Keramidas , freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How do I unformat a man page like /tmp/man.1? Message-ID: <20011204101659.A26925@sunbay.com> References: <20011203115234.GB1560@hades.hell.gr> <7o667om8ff.67o@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7o667om8ff.67o@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 11:04:52AM -0800, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > Giorgos Keramidas 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 > Yeah, I know. New mdoc(7) does a very good job of notifying about bad formatted manpages (on stderr), and this manpage is from contrib/bind part of the CVS tree, and I have had patches for contrib/ and crypto/ for almost a year now (see attached). Unfortunately, no one seems to care much about submitting these patches back to the authors, except for probably crypto/heimdal and crypto/kerberosIV. Thanks Assar! > 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 "". > > The "nroff -mandoc" command gives the same results. > > This is in an xterm with $TERM = xterm-xf86-v32. > If you don't see this messy behavior with cons25 it's probably this terminal's problem. Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Oracle Developer/DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message