man(1)

[Ruslan Ermilov]

On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 09:39:38AM -0400, Rahul Siddharthan wrote:
> Ruslan Ermilov said on Aug  4, 2004 at 10:35:32:
> > On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 09:30:12AM +0200, Simon L. Nielsen wrote:
> > > On 2004.08.04 00:29:51 -0400, Rahul Siddharthan wrote:
> > > > I was wrong about calling it BSD man... it's GNU man, but a much older
> > > > version than what current linux systems ship.
> > > >
> > > > I can work on a patch for this specific feature when I get some time.
> > > > Before I start, is there any reason people may think this is a bad
> > > > idea?
> > > 
> > > Well, it can be done without a patch... I use the following tcsh alias
> > > so I can just write 'manf foo.1' :
> > > 
> > > groff -Wall -Tascii -te -mandoc !^ | less
> > > 
> > You need to use ``-mtty-char -man'' to get the correct output.  (-man
> > or -mandoc doesn't matter.)
> 
> 
> Well that kinds of proves my point... you expect new users to know all
> this?   I myself have used something like "groff -Tascii -mandoc" but
> only after a few years of using unix.
> 
No, I don't even expect new users to worry about formatting the
manpage source files like ``man /usr/src/bin/cat/cat.1''.  ;)

And someone could put this hint into the FreeBSD fortune file.

I'm not opposed to the idea of man(1) being able to work with
a pathname arguments, if the patch is small.


Cheers,
-- 
Ruslan Ermilov
ru at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer
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