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2 total messages Started by Paul Wood Tue, 01 Sep 1992 16:10

#865

Author: Paul Wood
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1992 16:10

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

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                       -=( Paul Wood )=-
             -=( pcwood@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu )=-

Re: man -t

#869

Author: 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.

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erik sowa (sowa@amdew.llnl.gov)

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