From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 4 07:35:43 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7254C16A4CE; Wed, 4 Aug 2004 07:35:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: from tigra.ip.net.ua (tigra.ip.net.ua [82.193.96.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF63C43D6D; Wed, 4 Aug 2004 07:35:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ru@ip.net.ua) Received: from heffalump.ip.net.ua (heffalump.ip.net.ua [82.193.96.213]) by tigra.ip.net.ua (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i747ZVh0042213 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 4 Aug 2004 10:35:32 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from ru@ip.net.ua) Received: (from ru@localhost) by heffalump.ip.net.ua (8.12.11/8.12.11) id i747ZWlu022904; Wed, 4 Aug 2004 10:35:32 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from ru) Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 10:35:32 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: "Simon L. Nielsen" Message-ID: <20040804073532.GA22846@ip.net.ua> References: <20040804042951.GA1371@online.fr> <20040804073012.GA685@arthur.nitro.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="qDbXVdCdHGoSgWSk" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040804073012.GA685@arthur.nitro.dk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new cc: Rahul Siddharthan cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: man(1) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 07:35:43 -0000 --qDbXVdCdHGoSgWSk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 09:30:12AM +0200, Simon L. Nielsen wrote: > On 2004.08.04 00:29:51 -0400, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > Evan Dower said on Aug 3, 2004 at 14:05:10: > > > >And it's worth noting that minor incompatibilities like this just > > > >serve to annoy new users (which usually means users from linux-land). > > > >For example, it's annoying that BSD man can't read a manpage by > > > >specifying the full path to a filename (eg, man ./foo.1). > > > > > > Yeah... Why is that? It seems like it would be awfully useful to read= man > > > pages without installing them. > > > > I was wrong about calling it BSD man... it's GNU man, but a much older > > version than what current linux systems ship. > > > > I can work on a patch for this specific feature when I get some time. > > Before I start, is there any reason people may think this is a bad > > idea? >=20 > Well, it can be done without a patch... I use the following tcsh alias > so I can just write 'manf foo.1' : >=20 > groff -Wall -Tascii -te -mandoc !^ | less >=20 You need to use ``-mtty-char -man'' to get the correct output. (-man or -mandoc doesn't matter.) Cheers, --=20 Ruslan Ermilov ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer --qDbXVdCdHGoSgWSk Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBEJHEqRfpzJluFF4RAu9+AJ9pV0monBHx5qwgUeAyHshFe5HQEACfULxH 3+wGM/4nskV91imPbvc3+XY= =BI+n -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --qDbXVdCdHGoSgWSk--