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Dear Martyn,
thanks for the hint about lynx. I could create the 'man'-pages with
#> cd $CHTML
#> mkdir ../doc
#> for i in *.html; do lynx -dump $i > ../doc/${i%html}doc; done
#> bash makeman.sh
That's good enough for me.
Regards,
Tim
On 11/15/2013 03:46 PM, Martyn Winn wrote:
> Many, many years ago, the man pages used to be nroff-formatted .1
> files. We converted these to html files, and used lynx to
> automatically generate ASCII .doc files which could be used as man
> pages. AFAIK this is still the case.
>
> I mention this in case anyone wants to get nostalgic about
> nroff/groff/troff ...
>
> Martyn
>
>> -----Original Message----- From: CCP4 bulletin board
>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Phil Evans Sent: 15
>> November 2013 14:37 To: ccp4bb Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] ccp4
>> man-pages
>>
>> AFAICS the .doc files look as if they were auto-generated from
>> the .html files in 6.3.0. Certainly the only documentation I have
>> written for Pointless and Aimless is in html
>>
>> Phil
>>
>> On 15 Nov 2013, at 14:33, "Edward A. Berry" <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>> (assuming of course the .doc files aren't also missing).
>>>
>>> CDOC: Undefined variable. [berry@sbserv ~]$ ls $CCP4/doc ls:
>>> cannot access /sw/lnx/ccp4-6.4.0/doc: No such file or
>>> directory
>>>
>>> I second the request for continued man pages and .doc files
>>>
>>> Ian Tickle wrote:
>>>> I agree completely with Tim: I use 'man' (or 'info' for
>>>> gfortran & the like) all the time - but then I'm a die-hard
>>>> command-liner/shell-scripter who never
>> uses
>>>> ccp4i! I haven't got around to installing 6.4 yet but if &
>>>> when I
>> do
>>>> & I find the man pages missing as Tim says I'll probably copy
>>>> over the ones from 6.3 - even though they're maybe now a bit
>>>> out of date,
>> it's better than no man pages! ... or maybe better would be
>> something like:
>>>>
>>>> alias manc 'less $CDOC/\!^.doc'
>>>>
>>>> (assuming of course the .doc files aren't also missing).
>>>>
>>>> ... or this looks promising:
>>>> ftp://jaguar.ncsl.nist.gov/current_docs/sctk-1.2/doc/html2man.pl
>>
>>>>
(haven't tried it though).
>>>>
>>>> Cheers
>>>>
>>>> -- Ian
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 15 November 2013 09:48, Tim Gruene
>>>> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
> Dear all,
>
> I am sorry about this 'double' post, but I had no reply on
>>> ccp4bb-dev
> within about three weeks.
>
> I wonder if I was the only one using the ccp4 man-pages. They
>>> were
> available until ccp4-6.3 but seem to be absent in the latest
>>> version.
>
> I find them utterly handy, much faster than locating the
> html-documentation through a web-browser and they probably do not
>>> take
> up much space.
>
> So I hope to get some votes for redistributing the man-pages
>>> through
> the ccp4bb.
>
> Best, Tim
>
>>>>
>>>>
>
- --
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Dr Tim Gruene
Institut fuer anorganische Chemie
Tammannstr. 4
D-37077 Goettingen
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