Re: alternative man page reader?

1999-05-16 Thread Bradley Bell
On Sat, 15 May 1999, Lars Wirzenius wrote: Othmar Pasteka [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Actually you can make some text output with groff, for instance: groff -man -Tascii pon.1 pon.txt Yes, of course. The point raised earlier by this thread is that groff takes lots of space. The programs I pointed

Re: alternative man page reader?

1999-05-16 Thread Decklin Foster
Bradley Bell wrote: Here, for example, is a teeny tiny little nroff that does a good job reading most, but not all man pages: ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/utils/text/nroffsrc.tar.Z I'll have to check this out. If anyone is thinking about implementing a short 'man' shell script to go with

RE: alternative man page reader?

1999-05-16 Thread John van V.
Hi, I just joined the list and missed the beginning of the thread, but I generally use man2html in a cron job and have a shell cgi do a find in the htdocs area from my apache site when I get a little confused... Most of my stuff is perl anyway, being C illiterate, so I also do a lot of

Re: alternative man page reader?

1999-05-15 Thread Othmar Pasteka
Hi, Actually you can make some text output with groff, for instance: groff -man -Tascii pon.1 pon.txt works for me :). Let's say for the manuals, but works. so long Othmar

Re: alternative man page reader?

1999-05-15 Thread Richard Braakman
Lars Wirzenius wrote: Manual pages are actually written in a new language, defined using the troff macro language. It is much simpler than the real troff language. This may no longer be true. I see quite a few codes in manpages that aren't defined by man(7). For example, the manpage for [

RE: alternative man page reader?

1999-05-14 Thread Shaleh
On 13-May-99 Bradley Bell wrote: has anybody thought about packaging an alternative to the man-db/groff combination for reading man pages? 4mb is a lot for small systems, and reading man pages is pretty much a neccessity. Maybe I am wrong here but, how else are you gonna do it? man pages

Re: alternative man page reader?

1999-05-14 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
On Thu, May 13, 1999 at 11:17:57PM -0400, Shaleh wrote: : : On 13-May-99 Bradley Bell wrote: : has anybody thought about packaging an alternative to the man-db/groff : combination for reading man pages? 4mb is a lot for small systems, and : reading man pages is pretty much a neccessity. : :

alternative man page reader?

1999-05-13 Thread Bradley Bell
has anybody thought about packaging an alternative to the man-db/groff combination for reading man pages? 4mb is a lot for small systems, and reading man pages is pretty much a neccessity. -Brad -Brad