On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 06:04:15AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
> I have downloaded a program with a man-page in troff format.
> How do I view it?
> I installed troffcvt but its man-page is non-informative.
> TIA
Feel free to use my script to do that, below.
ps_print is another script that send to my printer.
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#!/bin/ksh
# Format up a man page, the file name is the argument
# ADDW, July 1999
progname=$0
Usage() {
cat <<-!
Process a file with the man macros.
Usage: $0 [opts] [file]
-p generate (Postscript) output to current printer
-x eXplain
!
exit $1
}
Postscript=0
while getopts px arg
do case "$arg" in
p) Postscript=1;;
x) Usage 0;;
esac
done
shift $((OPTIND - 1))
if [ $# -eq 0 ]
then echo "Usage: $0 filename" >&2
exit 2
fi
if [ $Postscript = 1 ]
then groff -man -etpsR -rO0.75i -rW6.5i -rL11i $o $1 | ps_print
else tbl $1 | nroff -man | col | less
fi
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