From: pd AT kubism DOT ku DOT dk (Peter Dalgaard BSA) Subject: Re: man? - solved 6 Feb 1997 14:07:29 -0800 Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: References: <009AF75B DOT D4E1E660 DOT 9326 AT ifk20 DOT mach DOT uni-karlsruhe DOT de> Original-To: dahms AT ifk20 DOT mach DOT uni-karlsruhe DOT de Original-Cc: shochat AT itg-sepg DOT logicon DOT com, gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com In-Reply-To: dahms@ifk20.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de's message of Thu, 06 Feb 1997 02:13:39 EST X-Mailer: Gnus v5.2.40/Emacs 19.34 Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com dahms AT ifk20 DOT mach DOT uni-karlsruhe DOT de writes: > > Hi, you wrote: > > : troff -man -Tascii bash.1 | grotty | less > > Isn't this the same as > groff -man -Tascii bash.1 | less Yes, but in the NT groff package, there *is* no groff command (the wrapper didn't work under 'raw' NT, apparently). But with bash in place, you can make an nroff as #!/bin/sh troff -Tascii $* | grotty and then create a simple 'man' as something like #!/bin/sh nroff -man /usr/man/man*/$*.* | less -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - (p DOT dalgaard AT biostat DOT ku DOT dk) FAX: (+45) 35327907 - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".