Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen
On Saturday 02 October 2021 07:45:07 Eric S Fraga wrote:
> man pages are written in troff/nroff (which can be compiled using
> groff) using the man style. You can do the following, for instance:
>
> gunzip -c /usr/share/man/man1/chmod.1.gz | groff -man | lp
>
> (or replace "lp" with "gv -" to see on screen).
>
> Replace chmod with specific command and note that there is a different
> folder for each section of the Unix manual, man1 being for commands,
> man2 for system libraries, ...
>
> troff is how us old-timers used to write before LaTeX took over. I
> did my PhD in troff many moon ago on BSD Unix and then SunOS.
> Testament to the quality of the software: I can still generate a PDF
> of my thesis now after more than 30 years since I wrote it. Try that
> in Word... ;-)
And in 3 decades, word will have destroyed it 30 times (or more) :(((((
Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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