Re: [tlug] SuSE 9.1 - 9.3 Upgrade Saga

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

>>>>> "Lyle" == Lyle Saxon <Lyle> writes:

    Lyle> I have a question about the man pages though - although each
    Lyle> screen copy-pastes out well enough (as below), as I'd like
    Lyle> to view them in a text editor where I could save the bits I
    Lyle> find most of interest in a separate file without having to
    Lyle> go back and forth from the man page to the editor.

Let me count the ways:

"One!" emacs -eval '(manual-entry "stty")'

"Two!" zcat /usr/man/man1/stty.1.gz | groff -man -

"Three!" zcat /var/cache/man/cat1/stty.1.gz

"Four!" more examples, an exercise for the reader....

You may need to fiddle a bit with the groff example, and if your man
doesn't have caching enabled, you won't have anything in
/var/cache/man, of course.
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