Of course, to do this would require "man man" (no relation to man woman). And reading without railroad tracks. (however multi-tracking helps).
> -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Richard Hitt > Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 4:42 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: OT: Linux and Railroad Diagrams > > You might enjoy knowing about man -t. Instead of > > cat $i | troff -man | lpr -Pprinter > > you should be able to do > > man -t $i | lpr -Pprinter > > man man for the details. > > Richard > > > David Boyes wrote: > >> As far as I can tell there is no consolidated "Linux Command > >> > > Reference" > > > >> anywhere. > >> > > > > /bin/csh > > cd /usr/man (note, *not* /usr/man/catman!) > > foreach i (`ls -R *`) ( note backticks -- I'm sure there's a better > > way, but > > what did you pay for this one? ) cat $i | > > troff -man | lpr -Pyourpsprinter echo $i end > > > > Now you have a command reference for your system man pages. If you > > want a TOC, you'll need to insert troff chapter commands > between the > > files, save them to a tmp file and run troff separately. > > > > For info format docs, there is a texman command that can > format info > > docs into printable format. Texman produces a TOC (if horribly > > formatted). > > > > Honestly, I personally hate railroad track diagrams. For > me, they just > > camouflage an inability to describe a command completely and > > accurately in prose. They do have an advantage if you need > > multilingual docs, however. > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access > instructions, send > > email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > > visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access > instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the > message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
