Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 10:02:52 -0700 From: Doug Barton <DougB@gorean.org> To: "Dimitrios T." <midios3@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.org, alboissy@airfrance.fr Subject: Re: man's bold text Message-ID: <392AB9BC.872B0BAB@gorean.org> References: <20000523110144.58096.qmail@hotmail.com>
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"Dimitrios T." wrote: > > Thanx to Alexandre and Doug for answering my question. > > It's funny how trying to understand one mystery you come yet across an other > :) > > I was looking at the man page of sh and I thought: let's dump this thing > into a text file and walk through it with my 'favourite text editor' (vi?). > Easy to search for a specific character/word/sentence, no? > > I redirected the output of 'man sh' to a file but when I edited it I > realized, of course, that bold text was rather illegible.. Now it's time to do some reading in a different source. :) http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/tutorials/new-users/index.html is a good start, and contains the answer to your exact question here (Thanks Annelise :). You should also start reading through the FAQ and Handbook on the web page. You won't understand it all now, but it will give you a good foundation to grow on. Good luck, Doug -- "Live free or die" - State motto of my ancestral homeland, New Hampshire Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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