From: vzell AT de DOT oracle DOT com (Dr. Volker Zell) Subject: Re: Info and man/groff questions 17 Nov 1998 11:36:49 -0800 Message-ID: <2169-Tue17Nov1998111413+0100-vzell.cygnus.gnu-win32@de.oracle.com> References: <364FCE52 DOT F7B5CB22 AT solidrocksystems DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.9.0 - "Isurugi") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII To: vrice AT solidrocksystems DOT com Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com >> 2. I also found binaries for man on Michael Hirmke's (I didn't >> go look that up, so I probably just butchered his name; sorry >> Michael) ftp site. It also works great, except where there are >> supposed to be end-of-line dashes I'm getting . For >> example, I get the following lines from less' man page: size, >> only the final screenful is displayed. Warn ing: some >> systems use ^V as a special literaliza tion character. The >> characters are in blue on white, rather than the white on >> blue of the rest of the text (in other words, it's reverse >> video ). I have the following in my /usr/local/share/man.conf and man works as expected. ----------------- snip -------------------------------- # # Generated automatically from man.conf.in by the # configure script. # # man.conf # # This file is read by man to configure the default manpath (also used # when MANPATH contains an empty substring), to find out where the cat # pages corresponding to given man pages should be stored, # and to map each PATH element to a manpath element. # It may also record the pathname of the man binary. [This is unused.] # The format is: # # MANBIN pathname # MANPATH manpath_element [corresponding_catdir] # MANPATH_MAP path_element manpath_element # # If no catdir is given, it is assumed to be equal to the mandir # (so that this dir has both man1 etc. and cat1 etc. subdirs). # Certain versions of the FSSTND recommend putting formatted versions # of /usr/foopath/man/manx/page.x into /var/catman/foopath/catx/page.x. # The keyword FSSTND will enable this peculiar behaviour. # Explicitly given catdirs override. # # FSSTND # # This file is also read by man in order to find how to call nroff, less, etc., # and to determine the correspondence between extensions and decompressors. # # MANBIN /usr/local/bin/man # # Every automatically generated MANPATH includes these fields # MANPATH /usr/man MANPATH /usr/local/man MANPATH /usr/X386/man # # Set up PATH to MANPATH mapping # # (these mappings are superfluous when the right hand side is # in the mandatory manpath already, but will keep man from statting # lots of other nearby files and directories) # MANPATH_MAP /bin /usr/man MANPATH_MAP /sbin /usr/man MANPATH_MAP /usr/bin /usr/man MANPATH_MAP /usr/local/bin /usr/local/man MANPATH_MAP /usr/X386/bin /usr/X386/man MANPATH_MAP /usr/bin/X11 /usr/X386/man MANPATH_MAP /usr/bin/mh /usr/man # # Useful paths - note that COL should not be defined when # NROFF is defined as "groff -Tascii" or "groff -Tlatin1"; # not only is it superfluous, but it actually damages the output. # # TROFF /usr/local/bin/groff -Tps -mandoc # NROFF /usr/local/bin/groff -Tlatin1 -mandoc TROFF /usr/local/bin/groff -man -Tascii NROFF /usr/local/bin/groff -man -Tascii EQN /usr/local/bin/eqn -Tps NEQN /usr/local/bin/eqn -Tlatin1 TBL /usr/local/bin/tbl # COL REFER /usr/local/bin/refer PIC /usr/local/bin/pic VGRIND GRAP PAGER /usr/local/bin/less -is CAT /usr/bin/cat # # The command "man -a xyzzy" will show all man pages for xyzzy. # When CMP is defined man will try to avoid showing the same # text twice. # CMP /usr/bin/cmp -s # # Compress cat pages # COMPRESS /usr/bin/gzip COMPRESS_EXT .gz # # Default manual sections (and order) to search if -S is not specified # and the MANSECT environment variable is not set. # MANSECT 1:8:2:3:4:5:6:7:9:tcl:n:l:p:o # # Decompress with given decompressor when input file has given extension # The command given must act as a filter. # ..gz /usr/bin/gunzip -c ..z /usr/bin/gunzip -c ..Z /usr/bin/zcat ..F /usr/local/bin/fcat ..Y /usr/local/bin/unyabba ----------------- snip -------------------------------- This I have in .bashrc for less: export LESSCHARSET=latin1 export LESS="-IMnr" Ciao Volker -- ___________________________________________________________________________ "Is a dream a lie if it don't come true or is it something worse ..." Dr. Volker Zell __ / _ / __ / ___/ / ___/ -- Trainer -- / / /__/ /_ / / / __/ Oracle Germany ____/__/ _|__/ __/____/ ____/____/ Paul-Thomas-Str.58 D-40599 D|sseldorf e-Mail: mailto:vzell AT de DOT oracle DOT com WWW: http://trgsund4.de.oracle.com/ Tel: (+49) 211-74839-414 Fax: (+49) 211-74839-44 ___________________________________________________________________________ The statements and opinions expressed here are my own and do not necessarily represent those of Oracle Corporation. - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".