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Find and install man file manually
I seem to be missing some man pages, notably gcc and g++. It doesn't help that I specify the section. whereis doesn't list man pages for those two, so I think they are simply not there.
With Google I ...
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Nested lists in man page
I have a command line parameter that takes a number of flags afterwards, which I would like to have as a list inside the parameter list in the man page.
Currently I am simply making lines of Flag - ...
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Emacs mode for man pages
I'm translating man pages, and have run in to a few problems with Emacs.
How do you specify language? (With man, it looks like this man -Lsv shutdown for the Swedish "sv" subdirectory, if ...
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groff to PS Conversion
I am very new to UNIX, learning groff with the help of cygwin on Windows XP SP3.
I have downloaded groff-binaries from here, but using cygwin, I could not able to re-produce ps files.
I have used ...
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troff to PDF conversion
I am very new to UNIX and trying to learn troff. I have some set of very old written troff files (before 20 years from now).
Some samples are hereunder:
file_00.g
B,4.5,3.5,15.5,23.5
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