On Wednesday 17 March 2004 16:07, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> I was wondering what tools (if any) people were using for writing man
> pages for their FOSS projects.
While I normally use vi, I played with a very nice tool for GUI lovers:
http://wolfpack.twu.net/ManEdit/
It is ma
On Wednesday 17 March 2004 16:07, you wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was wondering what tools (if any) people were using for writing man
> pages for their FOSS projects.
>
> Shachar
I'm using the perl POD (Plain Old Documentation) suite of tools. You write in
one common
On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 06:29:02PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Nadav Har'El wrote:
>
> >
> >1. Manual pages are written in the nroff language. To convert a manual
> > page file "ls.1" to ascii for viewing, use
> > groff -man -Tascii ls.1
> >
> >
> Shachar is using debian - "man -l file
Nadav Har'El wrote:
1. Manual pages are written in the nroff language. To convert a manual
page file "ls.1" to ascii for viewing, use
groff -man -Tascii ls.1
Shachar is using debian - "man -l filename" should do it.
Couldn't find this option on RH 8's man, though.
--Amos
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On Wed, Mar 17, 2004, Shachar Shemesh wrote about "Tool for writing man pages":
> Hi,
>
> I was wondering what tools (if any) people were using for writing man
> pages for their FOSS projects.
>
> Shachar
Vi and groff...
Seriously, the amount of troff y
Hi,
I was wondering what tools (if any) people were using for writing man
pages for their FOSS projects.
Shachar
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Text1On Wed, Jun 25, 2003, Guy Cohen wrote about "garbage in man pages":
> I have a problem with reading man pages on redhat8.
> some chars are missing and instead I see garbage.
> The garbage chars replace mostly the "-" chars infront of options.
>
> Any one
reading man pages on redhat8.
> some chars are missing and instead I see garbage.
> The garbage chars replace mostly the "-" chars infront of options.
>
> Any one knows what's the problem?
>
> Thanks
>
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Guy Cohen wrote on 2003-06-25:
> I have a problem with reading man pages on redhat8.
> some chars are missing and instead I see garbage.
> The garbage chars replace mostly the "-" chars infront of options.
>
> Any one knows what's the problem?
>
Assuming you use a
Quoting Guy Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I have a problem with reading man pages on redhat8.
> some chars are missing and instead I see garbage.
> The garbage chars replace mostly the "-" chars infront of options.
>
LC_CTYPE=en_US solves it. I have a similar prob
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003, Guy Cohen wrote about "garbage in man pages":
> I have a problem with reading man pages on redhat8.
> some chars are missing and instead I see garbage.
> The garbage chars replace mostly the "-" chars infront of options.
>
> Any one knows
On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Guy Cohen wrote:
> I have a problem with reading man pages on redhat8.
> some chars are missing and instead I see garbage.
> The garbage chars replace mostly the "-" chars infront of options.
>
> Any one knows what's the problem?
>
> Thanks
Set LANG="en_US.UTF-8" in /etc/sysconfig/i18n
Gilboa
On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 15:18, Guy Cohen wrote:
> I have a problem with reading man pages on redhat8.
> some chars are missing and instead I see garbage.
> The garbage chars replace mostly the "-" chars infront o
I have a problem with reading man pages on redhat8.
some chars are missing and instead I see garbage.
The garbage chars replace mostly the "-" chars infront of options.
Any one knows what's the problem?
Thanks
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>
> Another barely useful source is section 9 of man pages. However, only 28
> functions are covered (I did not count pcbios interface).
>
Can you tell why I do not have this section (9)?
[00:49:26 /tmp]$ locate man9
[00:49:56 /tmp]$ dpkg -S man9
dpkg: *man9* not found.
[00:50:
Oleg Goldshmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Felix Shvaiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I'm sorry for stupid question, but where can I find SUBJ for download (gz,
> > not RPM, please).
OK, you got me intrigued, here goes Google:
http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/X11R6.1/man/X11/
Based on X1
Felix Shvaiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm sorry for stupid question, but where can I find SUBJ for download (gz,
> not RPM, please).
For each piece of software documentation is typically a part of
the distribution.
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I'm sorry for stupid question, but where can I find SUBJ for download (gz,
not RPM, please).
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>Well, that's pretty logical. Windows and Unix Ghostscript mostly use the
>same drivers, so if Windows GS would directly support your printer, the
>Linux GS probably would too :-)
That's pretty logical, but it doesn't work:
jobs appear in lpq and then disppear
without a trace.
Does this mean the
dorit ben shalom wrote:
>
> Actually,
> my HP 3100 is _so_ proprietry,
> that my _windows_ ghostview has
> to use the generic mswinpr2 protocol.
>
> Does this mean that it is compatible
> with anything more generic in linux?
Well, that's pretty logical. Windows and Unix Ghostscript mostly use t
Actually,
my HP 3100 is _so_ proprietry,
that my _windows_ ghostview has
to use the generic mswinpr2 protocol.
Does this mean that it is compatible
with anything more generic in linux?
Thanks
(I hope you are not fed up with this
topic already)
Dorit
==
>You may be able to find an old 386 or 486 to use as a printer driver.
By the way,
I didn't get another computer,
but I did 'borrow' a colleague's
old HP 3P.
(but that only works for at work :)
Thanks again
Dorit
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Hi guys
I bought the only HP printer around that is not very likely
to have a linux driver anytime soon.
So I find myself printing man pages in wordpad.
They turn out OK apart from boldface (?)
where every character c turns into
\Box c \Box c.
Any simple conversion I can do to prevent this
e:
> more /etc/man.config, make sure the MANPATH entries
> look a-ok.
>
> Might want to look at your MANPATH variable (if you have one),
> export | grep -i manpath
>
> G'luck.
>
> Amir wrote:
> >
> > I installed QT, And now when I'm searching for someth
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Amir wrote:
:I installed QT, And now when I'm searching for something in the man
:pages(using for example *man socket*),
:It never gives me results,
:It's only give me results when I'm typing *man qt*.
:Any way to return the way to be as it was before?
try
more /etc/man.config, make sure the MANPATH entries
look a-ok.
Might want to look at your MANPATH variable (if you have one),
export | grep -i manpath
G'luck.
Amir wrote:
>
> I installed QT, And now when I'm searching for something in the man
> pages(using for example
I installed QT, And now when I'm searching for something in the man
pages(using for example *man socket*),
It never gives me results,
It's only give me results when I'm typing *man qt*.
Any way to return the way to be as it was bef
st run "makewhatis" on your computer (as root),
> AFAIK.
> BTW, the command "apropos" is equivalent to "man -k ..."
>
> Boaz.
>
> Oded Arbel wrote:
> >
> > hellopeople.
> >
> > Is there a way to search the entire collecti
AFAIK.
> BTW, the command "apropos" is equivalent to "man -k ..."
>
> Boaz.
>
> Oded Arbel wrote:
> >
> > hellopeople.
> >
> > Is there a way to search the entire collection of man pages for keywords ?
> > for example - let's
>
> hello people.
>
> Is there a way to search the entire collection of man pages for keywords ?
> for example - let's say I want to find (or check if exist) a program that
> does a certain function, but i don't know what it's name (or even if such
> a program
can just file:/usr/doc/ if it is the thing that you mean...
Nope, he didn't mean that. It lets you view MAN pages, not /usr/doc. I didn't
try that either.
Liran.
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YBd>> less /var/lib/dpkg/available (descriptions of all available packages)
YBd>> here I go on-line and use a search engine (and still haven't decided on
YBd>> a good one).
Google is the clear winner on "relevance". Usually, the first or the
second match is what you need, if you bother to express
Hi
Oleg Goldshmidt wrote:
>
> Oded Arbel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Is there a way to search the entire collection of man pages for keywords ?
> > for example - let's say I want to find (or check if exist) a program that
> > does a certain functio
On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, Oded Arbel wrote:
man -k key
whatis key
--Ariel
P.S. Make sure that makewhatis -w was ran once after the system was
installed.
> hello people.
>
> Is there a way to search the entire collection of man pages for keywords ?
> for example - let
Oded Arbel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Is there a way to search the entire collection of man pages for keywords ?
> for example - let's say I want to find (or check if exist) a program that
> does a certain function, but i don't know what it's name (or even i
Oded
first try doing man on man it will give you all the options that can be
followed by the man command.
do : man -k keyword # whereas keyword is a word that should be close
tothe command that deals with it.
Haim Tzadok-S.A
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$ man man
At this (Thu, Jun 10, 1999 at 07:49:46AM +) day, Oded Arbel wrote:
| hello people.
|
| Is there a way to search the entire collection of man pages for keywords ?
| for example - let's say I want to find (or check if exist) a program that
| does a certain function, but i
From: Oded Arbel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> hello people.
>
> Is there a way to search the entire collection of man pages for keywords ?
> for example - let's say I want to find (or check if exist) a program that
> does a certain function, but i don't know what it'
hello people.
Is there a way to search the entire collection of man pages for keywords ?
for example - let's say I want to find (or check if exist) a program that
does a certain function, but i don't know what it's name (or even if such
a program exist on my system) so I'l
On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, dorit ben shalom wrote:
> I bought the only HP printer around that is not very likely
> to have a linux driver anytime soon.
> So I find myself printing man pages in wordpad.
> They turn out OK apart from boldface (?)
> where every character c turns into
>
Hi guys
The ps solution works beutifully.
Thanks to everybody for pitching in.
Dorit
'My life is a constant work around.
I just wish I knew arount _what_.'
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Dorit Ben-Shalom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> How do I convert man pages to ghostview?
This should work:
$ man bash | a2ps -m -1 -o ~/tmp/bashman.ps
$ gv !$
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Dorit Ben-Shalom wrote:
> Thanks again for the useful advice.
You are welcome.
> How do I convert man pages to ghostview?
The following command will convert them to postscript. You can then view
them with ghostview, print them on a postscript printer, or print them
with ghostscript on w
On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 02:40:26AM -0800, Dorit Ben-Shalom wrote:
> Thanks again for the useful advice.
> How do I convert man pages to ghostview?
man -t will output PostScript for you. Thus if you have the printer
set up (i.e. it receives PostScript) you can type "man -t per
Thanks again for the useful advice.
How do I convert man pages to ghostview?
Thanks
Dorit
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AS>> Wait a moment. Isn't Windows printer sharing such that you have to
AS>> have the printer drivers installed on any computer that wants to print
AS>> to it? I'm almost sure that that's how it works. (I'd love to be
AS>> corrected.)
Yes, the windows shared printer expects data to come in format
On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 11:13:06AM +0200, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
> You may be able to find an old 386 or 486 to use as a printer driver. You
> install windows 95 on it, and share the printer. Then you set up lpr to
> print via smbclient instead of on your local printer.
Wait a moment. Is
dorit ben shalom wrote:
> I bought the only HP printer around that is not very likely
> to have a linux driver anytime soon.
> So I find myself printing man pages in wordpad.
> They turn out OK apart from boldface (?)
> where every character c turns into
> \Box c \Box c.
The b
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