Hello Lynne, There are several ways to display man pages using scripts in Terminal, as summarized recently, for example, in this Mac OS X Hints page titled "Open formatted man pages in Preview from the command line": <http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20110511111211385>
The man pages are also available at the Apple Developer's site, and if I want to refer someone to the man page definition in a post, I'll google the command to post a URL (e.g. "man <name of command> apple developer"). The complete man pages are available from: <http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/index.html%23//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40000894> However, if you don't want to create a script or put a definition in a ".profile" file in your account, try looking into Bwana, which is a freeware app that is Lion ready, and which will display the man pages in Safari. Here's the URL of a recent blog post, "Man Pages Made Easy", that gives examples of how to use Bwana, and also gives a link to the download location: http://krypted.com/mac-os-x/man-pages-made-easy/ Alternatively, there's a $2.99 app in the Mac App Store called "Man Page Viewer" that you can try. (Bwana should actually give you more capabilities, but this looks like it might be a simple solution). The other options either involve apps that I'm not sure are still supported under Lion, or else which I don't feel necessarily justify the price (e.g. the $25 price for Manpower in the Mac App Store). I haven't tried the options mentioned in these last two paragraphs myself, but they're what I would look into. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Aug 14, 2011, at 23:35, Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith wrote: > Hello everybody > > Does anybody happen to know whether there is a way to dump the output of a > man page in terminal to a text file? I need to refer to the syntax of a > command but I would prefer to have it available in front of me as I work. So > what I thought I could do was to dump it to a text file and then print it > out. But the usual method doesn't seem to work on this occasion and it looks > as though the information on the command I'm looking at is a multi-page > command. > > Lynne <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find a monthly formatted archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at the following URL: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
