On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 12:41:41AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 10:14:54PM +0100, Jan Minar wrote: > > Now we want the lines narrower than the default 80 characters (I guess > > this won't work if man(1) is connected to the terminal, so the pipe is > > vital here (that's why we use cat(1) as a pager--to force piping). > > > > $ env COLUMNS=70 man --pager cat --ascii foo | col -b > text-filename > > The '--pager cat' continues to be unnecessary here; $COLUMNS is still > honoured. I prefer using the special-purpose $MANWIDTH for this, though. > > Narrowing the page does work even if man's output is a terminal.
Looking at the code, a clarification: narrowing the page works if you use $MANWIDTH to do it, but not if you use $COLUMNS. It might be possible to argue that this is a bug, although I'm not sure; I borrowed that particular section of code from the implementation of man(1) in Red Hat. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
