From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Dec 3 5:19:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (whale.sunbay.crimea.ua [212.110.138.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8A9437B405 for ; Mon, 3 Dec 2001 05:19:41 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ru@localhost) by whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (8.11.6/8.11.2) id fB3DJCb00557; Mon, 3 Dec 2001 15:19:12 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from ru) Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 15:19:11 +0200 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: "Gary W. Swearingen" Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How do I unformat a man page like /tmp/man.1? Message-ID: <20011203151911.G60143@sunbay.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 10:19:34PM -0800, 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 > > doesn't work as advertised in groff(1). It's not bad with some > pages, but VERY bad for others. > What exactly is bad? I have a nice output with the above command with the 8859-1 compatible charset. Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Oracle Developer/DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message