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From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" <DAGwyn@null.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] ctype(2)
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 16:25:45 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E301521.397B9AD7@null.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <03d7f335473e860b6d9a472197e68947@vitanuova.com>

C H Forsyth wrote:
> man -t 2 ctype | page -w
> should look all right
> if you're using plain man, nroff relies on reverse line feed
> to implement .2C/.1C (something like that)

My $0.02 worth:  Either the terminal emulation should support this
or else the "man" command should in default mode post-filter the
nroff output.  The user shouldn't be expected to type more than
"man whatever" for a reasonably formatted help page.


  reply	other threads:[~2003-01-23 16:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-22 16:19 C H Forsyth
2003-01-23 16:25 ` Douglas A. Gwyn [this message]
2003-01-24  1:08   ` Dennis Ritchie
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-01-22 14:15 Sam
2003-01-22 16:09 ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
2003-01-22 17:21   ` rob pike, esq.
2003-01-23 11:41     ` Aharon Robbins

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