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From: plannine@sigint.cs.purdue.edu
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 so much easier than...
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:45:22 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090129214522.GA1948@sigint.cs.purdue.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <85e334c50901291204s788999dai4171f6987946e7e@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 01:04:17PM -0700, Randall Bohn wrote:
> I needed to read a loose man file on Linux but couldn't remember how
> to format and display it.
>
> groff -man slig.8 wasn't readable.
>
> So I turned to drawterm.
>
> troff -man /mnt/term/home/bohn/slig.8 | page
>
> Problem solved.

Not to ruin a good story, but you can pass a file to Linux's man(1)
directly.  e.g.:

$ man ./slig.8

Methinks that's even easier than using drawterm...



      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-01-29 21:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-29 20:04 Randall Bohn
2009-01-29 20:37 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2009-01-29 21:45 ` plannine [this message]

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