Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 06:48:13 -0600 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to adjust man page line length Message-ID: <8162039A-6C07-4C88-928C-AAB4DD0FFCFE@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <20110118034037.GF90952@weller-fahy.com> References: <20110118034037.GF90952@weller-fahy.com>
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On Jan 17, 2011, at 9:40 PM, David J. Weller-Fahy wrote: > To expand on the question in the subject: How does one tell `man` not to > automatically format man pages to 80 columns? I'm looking for a fairly > easy way to do this, or confirmation it would involve internal > gymnastics I may not be willing to perform. Perhaps FreeBSD should look into using man from MacOS X where "man -c" will do as requested above. Will format to the output device width. For FreeBSD I suspect the solution involves "man -t" and then studying how to tell groff(1) to format for one's console rather than the default Postscript output. "man -t" generates very nice printable man pages. As for the request not to be CC'ed in reply, put the list address in the Reply-To: header as I have done here. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@HiWAAY.net ======================================================================== Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.
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