> 
 > if you use the command line --man and --html options then
 > its already split w.r.t. option and operand documentation
 >      ksh --man
 >      wait --man
 >      continue --man

I tried these again and was reminded of why I don't use them: they
write to standard error, not standard output.  And while man(1)
does something magical so that the pager works with bold and
underlined characters,

  ksh --man 2>&1 | less

does something unpredictable depending on platform.  Sometimes I get
plain ASCII with no bold or underline.  Other times I get an
unreadable mess of what appear to be vt100 escape codes.  I like
having man(1) take care of these things for me.  It is bad enough to
have to add '| less' to

  mumble -man

I am way am too old and stubborn to type 2>&1 as well.


Norman
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