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Re: man? - solved
- To: dahms at ifk20 dot mach dot uni-karlsruhe dot de
- Subject: Re: man? - solved
- From: Peter Dalgaard BSA <pd at kubism dot ku dot dk>
- Date: 06 Feb 1997 16:33:18 +0100
- Cc: shochat at itg-sepg dot logicon dot com, gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- References: <009AF75B.D4E1E660.9326@ifk20.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de>
dahms@ifk20.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de writes:
>
> Hi, you wrote:
>
> : troff -man -Tascii bash.1 | grotty | less
>
> Isn't this the same as
> groff -man -Tascii bash.1 | less
Yes, but in the NT groff package, there *is* no groff command (the
wrapper didn't work under 'raw' NT, apparently). But with bash in
place, you can make an nroff as
#!/bin/sh
troff -Tascii $* | grotty
and then create a simple 'man' as something like
#!/bin/sh
nroff -man /usr/man/man*/$*.* | less
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