Re: man formatting

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 10:17:54AM -0800, Mark Lanett wrote:
> Is there a way I can get man to not print out the page break stuff? Or
> maybe to think that pages are 10000 lines long instead of 66.

Upgrade to the version of groff in testing/unstable.

> Also can I get it to format to terminal width instead of fully justified 50
> characters wide?

Upgrade to the version of man-db in testing/unstable. :)

The pre-compiled groff and man-db packages in testing/unstable will pull
in quite a lot of stuff from post-stable distributions. You might want
to compile them yourself from source, although I don't promise it'll be
trivial to do.

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]