Many, many years ago, the man pages used to be nroff-formatted .1 files. We converted these to html files, and used lynx to automatically generate ASCII .doc files which could be used as man pages. AFAIK this is still the case.
I mention this in case anyone wants to get nostalgic about nroff/groff/troff ... Martyn > -----Original Message----- > From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of > Phil Evans > Sent: 15 November 2013 14:37 > To: ccp4bb > Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] ccp4 man-pages > > AFAICS the .doc files look as if they were auto-generated from the > .html files in 6.3.0. Certainly the only documentation I have written > for Pointless and Aimless is in html > > Phil > > On 15 Nov 2013, at 14:33, "Edward A. Berry" <ber...@upstate.edu> wrote: > > > > (assuming of course the .doc files aren't also missing). > > > > CDOC: Undefined variable. > > [berry@sbserv ~]$ ls $CCP4/doc > > ls: cannot access /sw/lnx/ccp4-6.4.0/doc: No such file or directory > > > > I second the request for continued man pages and .doc files > > > > Ian Tickle wrote: > >> I agree completely with Tim: I use 'man' (or 'info' for gfortran & > >> the like) all the time > >> - but then I'm a die-hard command-liner/shell-scripter who never > uses > >> ccp4i! I haven't got around to installing 6.4 yet but if & when I > do > >> & I find the man pages missing as Tim says I'll probably copy over > >> the ones from 6.3 - even though they're maybe now a bit out of date, > it's better than no man pages! ... or maybe better would be something > like: > >> > >> alias manc 'less $CDOC/\!^.doc' > >> > >> (assuming of course the .doc files aren't also missing). > >> > >> ... or this looks promising: > >> ftp://jaguar.ncsl.nist.gov/current_docs/sctk-1.2/doc/html2man.pl > (haven't tried it though). > >> > >> Cheers > >> > >> -- Ian > >> > >> > >> On 15 November 2013 09:48, Tim Gruene <t...@shelx.uni-ac.gwdg.de > >> <mailto:t...@shelx.uni-ac.gwdg.de>> wrote: > >> > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >> Hash: SHA1 > >> > >> Dear all, > >> > >> I am sorry about this 'double' post, but I had no reply on > ccp4bb-dev > >> within about three weeks. > >> > >> I wonder if I was the only one using the ccp4 man-pages. They > were > >> available until ccp4-6.3 but seem to be absent in the latest > version. > >> > >> I find them utterly handy, much faster than locating the > >> html-documentation through a web-browser and they probably do not > take > >> up much space. > >> > >> So I hope to get some votes for redistributing the man-pages > through > >> the ccp4bb. > >> > >> Best, > >> Tim > >> > >> - -- > >> - -- > >> Dr Tim Gruene > >> Institut fuer anorganische Chemie > >> Tammannstr. 4 > >> D-37077 Goettingen > >> > >> GPG Key ID = A46BEE1A > >> > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > >> Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) > >> Comment: Using GnuPG with Icedove - http://www.enigmail.net/ > >> > >> iD8DBQFShe4AUxlJ7aRr7hoRAh5qAJ4sHMCDcv1QfVUEmBCzLzNTbqkdvQCfRe4Q > >> RKQR1yeSfLPRFmt/C0RVxWA= > >> =U9wW > >> -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > >> > >> -- Scanned by iCritical.
