From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Apr 2 12:36:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.force9.co.uk [195.166.136.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A10BD14E0D for ; Fri, 2 Apr 1999 12:36:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@lan.awfulhak.org) Received: from keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (keep.lan.Awfulhak.org [172.16.0.8]) by awfulhak.org (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id VAA67985; Fri, 2 Apr 1999 21:31:12 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@lan.awfulhak.org) Received: from keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA03172; Fri, 2 Apr 1999 21:30:22 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199904022030.VAA03172@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: jmutter@netwalk.com Cc: chris@calldei.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Man pages aren't formatting correctly - In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 02 Apr 1999 01:27:51 CDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 21:30:22 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > :> Can anyone help with this one? > :> > :> bash-2.02$ man csh > :> The is a command language interpreter incorporating a history > :> mechanism (see job control facilities (see interactive file name > :> and user name completion (see and a C-like syntax. It is used > :> both as an interactive login shell and a shell script command > :> processor. If the first argument (argument 0) to the shell is > :> then this is a login shell. A login shell also can be specified > :> by invoking the shell with the flag as the only argument. The > :> rest of the flag arguments are interpreted as follows: This flag > :> forces a ``break'' from option processing, causing any further > :> > : > : Man pages are always formatted justified as shown above. > : > Maybe I should have included the entire page, I didn't think that that > would be necessary. The problem is that these pages are missing > things like newlines, highlighting, tabs, etc... Everything that makes > them readable. > > See the attached 'csh.manpage' for an example. > > Thanks again, > > Jim [.....] The whole page was probably a bit too much ;-} I don't know what your problem is, but the page looks like it's been processed with the wrong macro package. Check out the difference when you cd /usr/share/man/man8 gzcat ppp.8.gz | groff -Tascii | more as distinct from the more expected cd /usr/share/man/man8 gzcat ppp.8.gz | groff -Tascii -mandoc | more -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message