Subject: Re: How to read *.man files (for example in /lib/cvs/contrib)?
From: "Gilgamesh Nootebos" <[email-masked]>
To: "Charles Wilson" <[email-masked]>, "A. Lioubimov" <[email-masked]>
Cc: "Robert Collins" <[email-masked]>, <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 09:58:01 +0100

Charles Wilson wrote:
> A. Lioubimov wrote:
>
> > Thank you, but i don't know how yo use `man' for reading standalone
files.
> > What is the command line?
> >
> If you want to read an *uninstalled* man page, use this:
>
>
> groff -Tascii -mandoc foo.1
>
> --Chuck

From de man manpage:
If name contains a / then it is first tried as a filename, so that you  can
do man ./foo.5 or even man /cd/foo/bar.1.gz.

Gilgamesh

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