* [9fans] Plan9 so much easier than...
@ 2009-01-29 20:04 Randall Bohn
2009-01-29 20:37 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2009-01-29 21:45 ` plannine
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From: Randall Bohn @ 2009-01-29 20:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
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.
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* Re: [9fans] Plan9 so much easier than...
2009-01-29 20:04 [9fans] Plan9 so much easier than Randall Bohn
@ 2009-01-29 20:37 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2009-01-29 21:45 ` plannine
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From: Pietro Gagliardi @ 2009-01-29 20:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
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On Jan 29, 2009, at 3:04 PM, Randall Bohn wrote:
> groff -man slig.8 wasn't readable.
How? I get PostScript output when running a similar thing. (Strange
how groff automatically calls grops, but hey, that's GNU for you.)
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* Re: [9fans] Plan9 so much easier than...
2009-01-29 20:04 [9fans] Plan9 so much easier than Randall Bohn
2009-01-29 20:37 ` Pietro Gagliardi
@ 2009-01-29 21:45 ` plannine
1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: plannine @ 2009-01-29 21:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
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...
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