On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 22:51:45 -0600, David J. Weller-Fahy
dave-lists-freebsd-questi...@weller-fahy.com wrote:
* Giorgos Keramidas keram...@ceid.upatras.gr [2011-01-19 02:57 -0500]:
On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 12:29:18 -0600, David Kelly dke...@hiwaay.net wrote:
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 06:11:13PM
On Wed 19 Jan 2011 at 21:36:19 PST David Kelly wrote:
On Jan 19, 2011, at 10:51 PM, David J. Weller-Fahy wrote:
[...]
That did the job, but made `man -k`, which my fingers find familiar,
unusable. I remembered you were running a CURRENT snapshot, so figured
I'd check the difference between
On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 10:02:56 -0800, Charlie Kester corky1...@comcast.net
wrote:
In ancient times man was originally a shell script. What is old is new
again.
Is this a consequence of the move to mdocml instead of groff?
No, we are still using groff's groff_mdoc(7) package for authoring
* Giorgos Keramidas keram...@ceid.upatras.gr [2011-01-20 06:03 -0500]:
On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 22:51:45 -0600, David J. Weller-Fahy
dave-lists-freebsd-questi...@weller-fahy.com wrote:
Regardless, I ended up finding two solutions.
Nice! I'll check with our groff maintainer(s) to see if they
On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 12:29:18 -0600, David Kelly dke...@hiwaay.net wrote:
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 06:11:13PM +0100, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 21:40:38 -0600, David J. Weller-Fahy
dave-lists-freebsd-questi...@weller-fahy.com wrote:
To expand on the question in the subject: How
* Giorgos Keramidas keram...@ceid.upatras.gr [2011-01-19 02:57 -0500]:
On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 12:29:18 -0600, David Kelly dke...@hiwaay.net wrote:
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 06:11:13PM +0100, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
Set the 'columns' attribute of your tty:
stty columns 60
man xxx
* Polytropon free...@edvax.de [2011-01-18 13:44 -0500]:
man2pdf.sh:
#!/bin/sh
[ $1 != ] zcat `man -w $1` | \
groff -Tps -dpaper=a4 -P-pa4 -mandoc | ps2pdf - $1.pdf
This would cause groff to format for A4 paper width. It's fully
possible that a similar approach can be
* David Kelly dke...@hiwaay.net [2011-01-18 07:05 -0500]:
As for the request not to be CC'ed in reply, put the list address in
the Reply-To: header as I have done here.
I started to last night, and realized I couldn't devise a simple way to
do so automatically for all lists I subscribe to
On Jan 19, 2011, at 10:51 PM, David J. Weller-Fahy wrote:
[...]
That did the job, but made `man -k`, which my fingers find familiar,
unusable. I remembered you were running a CURRENT snapshot, so figured
I'd check the difference between man in HEAD and 8.1-RELEASE... WOW!
The man in HEAD
On Jan 17, 2011, at 9:40 PM, David J. Weller-Fahy wrote:
To expand on the question in the subject: How does one tell `man` not to
automatically format man pages to 80 columns? I'm looking for a fairly
easy way to do this, or confirmation it would involve internal
gymnastics I may not be
On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 21:40:38 -0600, David J. Weller-Fahy
dave-lists-freebsd-questi...@weller-fahy.com wrote:
To expand on the question in the subject: How does one tell `man` not to
automatically format man pages to 80 columns? I'm looking for a fairly
easy way to do this, or confirmation it
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 06:11:13PM +0100, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 21:40:38 -0600, David J. Weller-Fahy
dave-lists-freebsd-questi...@weller-fahy.com wrote:
To expand on the question in the subject: How does one tell `man`
not to automatically format man pages to 80
On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 06:48:13 -0600, David Kelly dke...@hiwaay.net wrote:
On Jan 17, 2011, at 9:40 PM, David J. Weller-Fahy wrote:
To expand on the question in the subject: How does one tell `man` not to
automatically format man pages to 80 columns? I'm looking for a fairly
easy way to
To expand on the question in the subject: How does one tell `man` not to
automatically format man pages to 80 columns? I'm looking for a fairly
easy way to do this, or confirmation it would involve internal
gymnastics I may not be willing to perform.
The quick fixes which did not work: I ensured
In the last episode (Jan 17), David J. Weller-Fahy said:
To expand on the question in the subject: How does one tell `man` not to
automatically format man pages to 80 columns? I'm looking for a fairly
easy way to do this, or confirmation it would involve internal gymnastics
I may not be
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