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Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 13:52:35 +0200
From: Giorgos Keramidas <charon@labs.gr>
To: "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@blarg.net>
Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: How do I unformat a man page like /tmp/man.1?
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On 2001-12-02 22:19:34, Gary W. Swearingen wrote:
> How to I do "man" on a out-of-place man page like /tmp/man.1?
> 
>     groff -mandoc -Tlatin1 /tmp/man.1 | less

I use a similar command:

	% nroff -mandoc man.1 | more

> doesn't work as advertised in groff(1). It's not bad with some
> pages, but VERY bad for others.

What problems do you have with the command you quoted?
On which manpages?

-giorgos

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