Date: 03 Dec 2001 11:04:52 -0800 From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) To: Giorgos Keramidas <charon@labs.gr>, Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How do I unformat a man page like /tmp/man.1? Message-ID: <7o667om8ff.67o@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20011203115234.GB1560@hades.hell.gr> References: <mcelmcn7ux.lmc@localhost.localdomain> <20011203115234.GB1560@hades.hell.gr>
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Giorgos Keramidas <charon@labs.gr> writes:
> 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?
This command
zcat /usr/share/man/man5/named.conf.5.gz | nroff -mandoc | less
gives dozens of these lines with increasing line numbers (along with
occasional spurts of good output):
mdoc warning: Empty input line #19
The handful of other man pages I've tried it on look OK, except that
about 5% of the lines end with a reverse-video "<AD>".
The "nroff -mandoc" command gives the same results.
This is in an xterm with $TERM = xterm-xf86-v32.
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