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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!news.uoknor.edu!ns1.nodak.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!news.clark.edu!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uknet!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!gomel.knirsch.de!knobel.knirsch.de!knobel.knirsch.de!andreas From: andreas@knobel.knirsch.de (Andreas Klemm) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: man works sssslow Date: 9 Jun 1994 12:11:28 GMT Organization: @ $HOME, 41469 Neuss, Germany Lines: 21 Message-ID: <2t70u2$5e2@knobel.knirsch.de> References: <2sjka9$qmd@panix2.panix.com> <2skprc$ho1@pdq.coe.montana.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: knobel.knirsch.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Nate Williams (nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu) wrote: : That's because the version of NetBSD you installed uses a version of man : that can't deal with unformatted man-pages. I *think* newer versions of : NetBSD use a man that can handle both formatted and unformatted : man-pages, though it's not as flexible as the version in FreeBSD. : It's a 'feature'. :-) Yeah ! Using tbl xxx.1 | groff -Tps -man > xxx.1.PS you can create printed manual pages in "Postscript quality". If you don't have a postscript printer, then use gs (ghostscript) as a filter. Never ever saw nicer manpages ;-) (ok, Solaris AnswerBook :) Andreas /// -- Andreas Klemm /\/\____ Wiechers & Partner Datentechnik GmbH andreas@knobel.knirsch.de ___/\/\/ andreas@wupmon.wup.de (Unix Support)