From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 18 13:02:02 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7000410656AB for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2011 13:02:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dkelly@hiwaay.net) Received: from fly.hiwaay.net (fly.hiwaay.net [216.180.54.1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 345648FC1A for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2011 13:02:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.0.0.9] (dynamic-24-42-224-110.knology.net [24.42.224.110] (may be forged)) (authenticated bits=0) by fly.hiwaay.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/fly) with ESMTP id p0ICmEQe005827 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2011 06:48:14 -0600 References: <20110118034037.GF90952@weller-fahy.com> In-Reply-To: <20110118034037.GF90952@weller-fahy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1082) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-Id: <8162039A-6C07-4C88-928C-AAB4DD0FFCFE@hiwaay.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: David Kelly Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 06:48:13 -0600 To: questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1082) Cc: Subject: Re: How to adjust man page line length X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 13:02:02 -0000 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.