Re: man -t

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From: Erik C. Sowa
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1992 19:27

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>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Wood <pcwood@romulus> writes:

Paul> When printing man pages with the man -t option, whomever is logged
Paul> into the console gets logged out as postscript gets restarted (I
Paul> believe).  Has anyone else had this problem?  What can be done to
Paul> prevent it?

I have the following line in my .cshrc:

  alias myman 'tbl \!* | eqn | ptroff -man -t | open'

This makes (e.g.)
  myman /usr/local/man/man1/someprogram.1
open a properly typeset man page for someprogram in Preview, which can
be printed if necessary. man -t may be looking for a typesetter; ptroff
rather than troff is the workaround.

--
erik sowa (sowa@amdew.llnl.gov)

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