Am Mittwoch, den 14.07.2010, 15:48 +0200 schrieb Manuel A. Fernandez
Montecelo:
> On Wednesday 14 July 2010 06:50:57 Charles Plessy wrote:
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> > The workaround I found was to copy the new manpage in /tmp/man/man1, and
> > call ‘man -M /tmp/man samtools’. Does anybody know how a more convenient
>
Hi Charles,
On Wednesday 14 July 2010 06:50:57 Charles Plessy wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> before updating a package, I wanted to look at the new upstream manpage,
> but realised that ‘nroff -man’ does not produce the same output as ‘man’
> itself. Let's take the example of samtools(1) from the samtool
14.07.2010 13:14, Roger Leigh wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 08:57:12AM +0200, Luca Falavigna wrote:
>> Il 14/07/2010 6.50, Charles Plessy ha scritto:
>>> Does anybody know how a more convenient to display a
>>> manpage the same way as users will get it by using ‘man’ ?
>>
>> groff -T ascii -man
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 08:57:12AM +0200, Luca Falavigna wrote:
> Il 14/07/2010 6.50, Charles Plessy ha scritto:
> > Does anybody know how a more convenient to display a
> > manpage the same way as users will get it by using ‘man’ ?
>
> groff -T ascii -man
> zcat /usr/share/man/manX/XXX | groff -
14.07.2010 09:01, Russ Allbery wrote:
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> You can just run man directly on the *roff file, but if you want to stick
> with the zcat pipeline, just add the -t flag to nroff to say to run the
> output through the tbl preprocessor first.
This is the most close of all suggestions. But even closer is
Il 14/07/2010 6.50, Charles Plessy ha scritto:
> Does anybody know how a more convenient to display a
> manpage the same way as users will get it by using ‘man’ ?
groff -T ascii -man
zcat /usr/share/man/manX/XXX | groff -T ascii -m man
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Charles Plessy writes:
> before updating a package, I wanted to look at the new upstream manpage,
> but realised that ‘nroff -man’ does not produce the same output as ‘man’
> itself. Let's take the example of samtools(1) from the samtools
> package.
> With ‘man samtools’, users can see tables l
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