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From: "Gilgamesh Nootebos" <Gilgamesh DOT Nootebos AT erd DOT com>
To: "Charles Wilson" <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>,
   "A. Lioubimov" <alexeil AT online DOT ru>
Cc: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: How to read *.man files (for example in /lib/cvs/contrib)?
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 09:58:01 +0100
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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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