McKown, John writes: > Very nice! Thanks. I guess that I'm going to end up dedicating a > weekend day to just read the entire output from "info bash". Luckily, > I can create a text file from it, convert it to PDF format, then > read the PDF directly on my Kindle DX or Android tablet.
In case you weren't aware of it already, the utilities used to process the *roff macros used in man pages support typesetting to PostScript as well as generating simple text output. So typing man -t bash > bash-man.ps will generate you a nicely formatted PostScript version of the man page in bash-man.ps, fancy fonts and all, instead of what you'd get from just taking the text version. That's suitable for direct pringting but you can instead just ps2pdf bash-man.ps to produce your bash-man.pdf PDF version. Using "info bash" instead of "man bash" uses a slightly different source of documentation (the FSF document their own programs in their own GNU info format instead of man pages) but you'll nearly always find that some nice people have already ensured that your distro has man pages for the programs as well and that they have either exactly the same content or are "close enough" for most purposes. There are ways of generating various typeset-like formats from info format too but I forget what they are and I don't think they are as simple as just adding "-t" to your man command invocation. --Malcolm -- Malcolm Beattie Mainframe Systems and Software Business, Europe IBM UK ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/