2010/7/14 Charles Plessy <[email protected]>: > Dear all, > > before updating a package, I wanted to look at the new upstream manpage, but > realised that 'nroff -man' does not produce the same output as 'man' itself. > Let's take the example of samtools(1) from the samtools package. > > With 'man samtools', users can see tables like the following one in the > section > 'SAM FORMAT'. > > > ┌────┬───────┬──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ > │Col │ Field │ Description > │ > > ├────┼───────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ > │ 1 │ QNAME │ Query (pair) NAME > │ > │ 2 │ FLAG │ bitwise FLAG > │ > │ 3 │ RNAME │ Reference sequence NAME > │ > (...) > > But with 'zcat /usr/share/man/man1/samtools.1.gz | nroff -man | less', here > is what > I get. > > center box; cb | cb | cb n | l | l . Col Field Description _ > 1 QNAME Query (pair) NAME 2 FLAG bitwise FLAG > 3 RNAME Reference sequence NAME 4 POS 1-based leftmost POSi�\ > > > The workaround I found was to copy the new manpage in /tmp/man/man1, and call > 'man -M /tmp/man samtools'. Does anybody know how a more convenient to > display a > manpage the same way as users will get it by using 'man' ? > > Have a nice day, > > -- > Charles > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected] > > man -l <man page file>
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