Re: [newbie] man, man, man
Dan Gordon wrote: On January 23, 2005 07:44 pm, Michaël Van Dorpe wrote: Quick question: when I type 'man man' in Konsole, and I don't want to read it, but instead I want to go to 'man rpm', how do I do that? The only way I found to do that now was starting a new Konsole session... there surely must be a better way, no? Ok if you are asking what i think just simply hit the Q key Regards, Dan Gordon And if you simply type man: in konq you will start out with a linked index to all things 'man' -- Newbie Seeking USER_FUNCTIONALITY always! Regards SnapafunFrank Big or small, a challenge requires the same commitment to resolve. Registered Linux User # 324213 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] man, man, man
On Sunday 23 January 2005 19:44, Michaël Van Dorpe wrote: Quick question: when I type 'man man' in Konsole, and I don't want to read it, but instead I want to go to 'man rpm', how do I do that? The only way I found to do that now was starting a new Konsole session... there surely must be a better way, no? Thanks! type man rpm instad of man man -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com --- To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] man, man, man
On Monday 24 January 2005 00:44, Michaël Van Dorpe wrote: Quick question: when I type 'man man' in Konsole, and I don't want to read it, but instead I want to go to 'man rpm', how do I do that? The only way I found to do that now was starting a new Konsole session... there surely must be a better way, no? Thanks! If you are using KDE then enter #rpm in the Konqueror URL line and you will see the manual. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] man, man, man
type man rpm instad of man man That was just an example... imagine I first want to read 'man rpm' and then I want to go to 'man man'... Do I have to close the first man for that? I was expecting a $ at the end of the last page of any man I am reading... I guess my question is not very clear, and it's not the most important one either... thanks for your help. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] man, man, man
If you are using KDE then enter #rpm in the Konqueror URL line and you will see the manual. oh, that looks much better! Thank you, I'll use Konqueror for this from now on... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] man, man, man
On January 23, 2005 07:44 pm, Michaël Van Dorpe wrote: Quick question: when I type 'man man' in Konsole, and I don't want to read it, but instead I want to go to 'man rpm', how do I do that? The only way I found to do that now was starting a new Konsole session... there surely must be a better way, no? Ok if you are asking what i think just simply hit the Q key Regards, Dan Gordon -- Sun Jan 23 20:02:46 EST 2005 20:02:46 up 1 day, 24 min, 1 user, load average: 0.48, 0.12, 0.03 For the first time we have a weapon that nobody has used for thirty years. This gives me great hope for the human race. -- Harlan Ellison Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] man, man, man
On Monday 24 January 2005 00:59, Michaël Van Dorpe wrote: type man rpm instad of man man That was just an example... imagine I first want to read 'man rpm' and then I want to go to 'man man'... Do I have to close the first man for that? I was expecting a $ at the end of the last page of any man I am reading... I guess my question is not very clear, and it's not the most important one either... thanks for your help. Hit 'Q' to cancel the man page. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] man, man, man
Michaël Van Dorpe wrote: If you are using KDE then enter #rpm in the Konqueror URL line and you will see the manual. oh, that looks much better! Thank you, I'll use Konqueror for this from now on... Also, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# xman Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] printing - man files info files.
Johan Sch wrote: Hi list, printing man files I do this .. man grub | col -b | lpr .. which is ok. but.. Please how can info files be printed, they seem to have more detail. You can send them directly to lpr too, but I use a2ps for printing out both man and info pages (and indeed most text documents). The basic command is: info grub | a2ps -t grub This will print it out in two virtual pages, with the title grub. There are a lot of options for both commands, so first look at info info and info a2ps The first can select which nodes you want to print, and the second will give you lots of printing options. Sir Robin -- I'm very into Britney Spears' early work, before she sold out, so mostly her, um, finger painting and macaroni art. Dawn - BtVS Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Universitesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] printing - man files info files.
On Sunday 13 Jun 2004 10:35 pm, robin wrote: Johan Sch wrote: Hi list, printing man files I do this .. man grub | col -b | lpr .. which is ok. but.. Please how can info files be printed, they seem to have more detail. You can send them directly to lpr too, but I use a2ps for printing out both man and info pages (and indeed most text documents). The basic command is: info grub | a2ps -t grub This will print it out in two virtual pages, with the title grub. There are a lot of options for both commands, so first look at info info and info a2ps The first can select which nodes you want to print, and the second will give you lots of printing options. Sir Robin For man pages, the man command can do it without any help: man -t subject | lpr This has the advantage of retaining the bold and underline attributes, which the col -b command strips. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] printing - man files info files.
On Sun, 13 Jun 2004 17:15:14 +0100 Richard Urwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 13 Jun 2004 10:35 pm, robin wrote: Johan Sch wrote: Hi list, printing man files I do this .. man grub | col -b | lpr .. which is ok. but.. Please how can info files be printed, they seem to have more detail. You can send them directly to lpr too, but I use a2ps for printing out both man and info pages (and indeed most text documents). The basic command is: info grub | a2ps -t grub This will print it out in two virtual pages, with the title grub. There are a lot of options for both commands, so first look at info info and info a2ps The first can select which nodes you want to print, and the second will give you lots of printing options. Sir Robin For man pages, the man command can do it without any help: man -t subject | lpr This has the advantage of retaining the bold and underline attributes, which the col -b command strips. -- Richard Urwin Would like to thank the respondents for helping in this matter. Enjoy -- Johan Sch kernel 2.6.3-13mdk May this be a good day for learning Registered Linux User #330034 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Printing man pages
the space doesn't have anything to do with the problem. verify if you can view the contents of the file: cat col_manpage.ps less col_manpage.ps You should be able to view it. Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 11:37, L.V.Gandhi wrote: On Tuesday 01 Jul 2003 5:35 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: | col -b lilo_manpage.ps for [EMAIL PROTECTED] lvgandhi]$ man col| col -b col_manpage.ps [EMAIL PROTECTED] lvgandhi]$ ls -l col_manpage.ps -rw-r--r--1 lvgandhi lvgandhi 2568 Jul 2 07:05 col_manpage.ps but kghostview couldn't open it. Maybe it's because you need a space in between col and the | ? So: man col | col -b col_manpage.ps ?? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- --BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-- V3.12 GE/CS/ITGAT d- s: a--? C+()$ UL+++(---$) P+ L+++---$ E W++ N+++(--) o+++ !K w--- !O M-- V-- PS+++ !PE Y-- PGP- t--- 5-- X R(+++) tv-(--)(+) b-(+) DI+++ D+(++)() G--@$ e+++ h*++ r(-)(+) z? --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing man pages
On Wednesday 02 Jul 2003 2:37 am, L.V.Gandhi wrote: On Tuesday 01 Jul 2003 5:35 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: | col -b lilo_manpage.ps for [EMAIL PROTECTED] lvgandhi]$ man col| col -b col_manpage.ps [EMAIL PROTECTED] lvgandhi]$ ls -l col_manpage.ps -rw-r--r--1 lvgandhi lvgandhi 2568 Jul 2 07:05 col_manpage.ps but kghostview couldn't open it. col outputs text, not postscript. % cat col_manpage.ps will display the file. See my previous post for getting man to output postscript directly, without using col. (Sorry I'm late for work.) -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing man pages
On Tuesday 01 Jul 2003 5:35 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: | col -b lilo_manpage.ps for [EMAIL PROTECTED] lvgandhi]$ man col| col -b col_manpage.ps [EMAIL PROTECTED] lvgandhi]$ ls -l col_manpage.ps -rw-r--r--1 lvgandhi lvgandhi 2568 Jul 2 07:05 col_manpage.ps but kghostview couldn't open it. -- L.V.Gandhi 203, Soundaryalahari Apartments, Lawsons Bay colony, Visakhapatnam, 530017 MECON, 5th Floor, RTC Complex, Visakhapatnam AP 530020 INDIA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing man pages
On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 11:37, L.V.Gandhi wrote: On Tuesday 01 Jul 2003 5:35 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: | col -b lilo_manpage.ps for [EMAIL PROTECTED] lvgandhi]$ man col| col -b col_manpage.ps [EMAIL PROTECTED] lvgandhi]$ ls -l col_manpage.ps -rw-r--r--1 lvgandhi lvgandhi 2568 Jul 2 07:05 col_manpage.ps but kghostview couldn't open it. Maybe it's because you need a space in between col and the | ? So: man col | col -b col_manpage.ps ?? -- Fri Jul 4 11:00:01 EST 2003 11:00:01 up 2 days, 20 min, 2 users, load average: 0.44, 0.28, 0.21 - |____ |kuhn media australia| | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | || | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1 RH 7.3 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 - * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GIT d-- s:- a+ C UL P+ L+++ E W++ N++ o-- K--- w--- O++ M+ V PS+++ PE Y++ PGP- t+++ 5+++ X+++ R+ tv b+++ DI+++ D++ G++ e+ h r+++ y+++ --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- I wouldn't marry her with a ten foot pole. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing man pages
Thanks Guys, This is new ground to me - I will be trying your suggestions Johan ** - Original Message - From: Richard Urwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 12:34 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Printing man pages On Tuesday 01 Jul 2003 10:38 am, Robin Turner wrote: Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 06:43, Johan Scheepers wrote: Hi, At the moment I use this command to print man pages... man lilo | col -b | lpr This is fine if it is only one or two pages. I do not seem to be able to redirect it to ordinary file Why - then I may be able to use a editor and be able to print first odd -reverse -then even - this will then use both sides of paper - save a lot off paper and also make my paper files smaller. Thanks Johan Do it like this: man lilo | col -b lilo_manpage.ps Then, you can open a nice postscript viewer/editor and make it all pretty and then print it at leisure! (or save it to view as you desire, or change it into an HTML file for indexing on your system) or try piping it through a2ps, which will format it nicely for you (check out man a2ps - there are tons of formatting options). Erm.. man has an option to output postscript. man -t lilo lilo_manpage.ps ghostview lilo_manpage.ps (man -t complains about a couple of fonts, but it works OK.) That gives you all the nice bold/italic highlighting etc. that you lose with col. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing man pages
On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 06:43, Johan Scheepers wrote: Hi, At the moment I use this command to print man pages... man lilo | col -b | lpr This is fine if it is only one or two pages. I do not seem to be able to redirect it to ordinary file Why - then I may be able to use a editor and be able to print first odd -reverse -then even - this will then use both sides of paper - save a lot off paper and also make my paper files smaller. Thanks Johan Do it like this: man lilo | col -b lilo_manpage.ps Then, you can open a nice postscript viewer/editor and make it all pretty and then print it at leisure! (or save it to view as you desire, or change it into an HTML file for indexing on your system) -- Tue Jul 1 10:00:00 EST 2003 10:00:00 up 6 days, 9:46, 3 users, load average: 1.78, 1.89, 1.87 - |____ |kuhn media australia| | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | || | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1 RH 7.3 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 - * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * Hey! Unless this is a nude love-in, get the hell off my property! You can't *own* property, man! I can! That's because I'm not a penniless hippie! --Farnsworth hippie Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie-it] man-it
Thursday, December 12, 2002 5:45 PM Andrea Celli scrive: Dovrebbe andare bene l'RPM di una qualsiasi release successiva, che scarichi da un qualunque mirror, ad es.: http://bo.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/Mandrake/9.0/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/man-pages-i t-0.3.0-18mdk.noarch.rpm poi lo installi col clessico rpm -i man-pages-it-0.3.0-18mdk.noarch.rpm. ciao, Andrea ho fatto esattamente come hai detto ma dopo aver lanciato: rpm -i man-pages-it-0.3.0-18mdk.noarch.rpm ricevo un: man=1.5j-8mdk is nedded by man-pages-it-0.3.0-18mdk in inglese l'ho pure capito cosa dice ma praticamente no, sono ancora un neofita di linux, che devo fare? ciao e grazie ancora
Re: [newbie-it] man-it
On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 14:35:08 +0100 Gaetano Del Vecchio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ho fatto esattamente come hai detto ma dopo aver lanciato: rpm -i man-pages-it-0.3.0-18mdk.noarch.rpm ricevo un: man=1.5j-8mdk is nedded by man-pages-it-0.3.0-18mdk in inglese l'ho pure capito cosa dice ma praticamente no, sono ancora un neofita di linux, che devo fare? ciao e grazie ancora Azz.. ci vuole una versione più aggiornata del programma man. Puoi provare a prendere dallo stesso sito anche l'rpm di man. Quasi sicuramente ti chiederà anche l'aggiornamento di groff e groff-for-man (il programma che visualizza le pagine man), Se si ferma lì va bene. Se vuol farti aggiornare tutta la distro, vedi tu. Altrimenti, non hai più i CD della tua versione? Se li hai, installa l'analogo pacchetto vecchio. Poi, con mc o ark apri il nuovo rpm e ne estrai le nuove man in una directory, rispettando la struttura di suddivisione in sottodirectory. Poi, fai un diff tra la directory /usr/man e quella nuova. A questo punto, metti al loro posto i manuali nuovi o aggiornati. ciao, Andrea
Re: [newbie-it] man-it
On Wed, 11 Dec 2002 19:10:08 +0100 Gaetano Del Vecchio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ciao a tutti, il mio problema è questo: nel cd-rom di linux Mandrake 8.0 che ho installato non c'è il man versione italiana, è possibile reperire questo da qualche parte e quindi installarlo? se si come? Dovrebbe andare bene l'RPM di una qualsiasi release successiva, che scarichi da un qualunque mirror, ad es.: http://bo.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/Mandrake/9.0/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/man-pages-it-0.3.0-18mdk.noarch.rpm poi lo installi col clessico rpm -i man-pages-it-0.3.0-18mdk.noarch.rpm. ciao, Andrea
Re: [newbie] Printing man pages
Sorry, on my machine as ex.: ESC x man ENTER manual-entry Enter Replace manual-entry by the man page (ex. dump) Eric Denis HAVLIK wrote: I suppose Rials answer is correct, but if all you need is just printing a page or two from time to time, (x)emacs will make you happy 1) start (x)emacs 2) type: ESC-x manual-entry ENTER 3) type the name of the manual entry you want to print 4) use "pretty-print" function to print the buffer. I highly recomend using (x)emacs for reading man pages even if you do not whish to print them - it is much nicer than normal "man" command. cu Denis -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- -- FRANCE (Be careful, my English can hurt you)
Re: [newbie] Printing man pages
hmm... Let's see what "man man" says about this... -t Use /usr/bin/groff -Tps -mandoc to format the manual page, passing the output to stdout. The output from /usr/bin/groff -Tps -mandoc may need to be passed through some filter or another before being printed. so... man -t manpage /dev/lp0 or man -t manpage | lpr or perhaps even man -t manpage | /usr/bin/groff -Tps -mandoc /dev/lp0 or man -t manpage | /usr/bin/groff -Tps -mandoc | lpr might do the trick. Are you ready to risk wasting a couple of pages of paper to try? ;-) ps: it looks like crap on screen, and I don't have any clue what it'll give on paper since I'm at home where I'm stuck with a win-printer. So experiment. Also the manpage is pretty unclear about it, and since I can't experiment with it right now I suggest you also take a look at the man-howto (if it exists). I'd do it for you, but not with this piece of cr@!* 14k4 modem. On May 12 Piero wrote: What do you do when you wnat to print a man page? Is there a site where you can find the whole man in a printable format? -- Rial Juanhttp://nighty.ulyssis.org e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator http://www.ulyssis.org The little critters in nature; they don't know they're ugly. That's very funny... A fly marying a bumble-bee... Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: [newbie] sending man pages to printer
Karen Heiby wrote: Hello, I try to send a man page to my printer and I get this error. I wonder if I have the right ghostscript package or something (I have everything that came with Mandrake 6.1) The error is: standard input:61: warning: can't find special character 'tm' Can you help me? Thanks! Karen Karen, I can't get my Epson printer to work at all, but if I could I would try the script I saw on The Caldera user group supplied by Kevin O'Gorman (Kevin.O'[EMAIL PROTECTED]) which reads: #!/bin/bash # manlp or manlpr - formats for Postscript and sends to lpr man -t $* | lpr He says to put this in/usr/local/bin or $HOME/bin. Good luck. -- Dennis Robertson 2/2 Sylvia Street NOOSAVILLE QLD 4566 AUSTRALIA Phone: 61 7 54742343 Mobile: 0419 535539 Fax: Phone first.
