From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue May 23 10: 2:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n0b.san.rr.com (dt051n0b.san.rr.com [204.210.32.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50DE937B867 for ; Tue, 23 May 2000 10:02:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (doug@master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n0b.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA46877; Tue, 23 May 2000 10:02:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Message-ID: <392AB9BC.872B0BAB@gorean.org> Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 10:02:52 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT-0508 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Dimitrios T." Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.org, alboissy@airfrance.fr Subject: Re: man's bold text References: <20000523110144.58096.qmail@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "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