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Re: How to test a manpage? ‘nroff -man | less’ does not display like ‘man’.



14.07.2010 09:01, Russ Allbery wrote:
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> You can just run man directly on the *roff file, but if you want to stick
> with the zcat pipeline, just add the -t flag to nroff to say to run the
> output through the tbl preprocessor first.

This is the most close of all suggestions.  But even closer is:

 $ man ./manpage.1.gz

(or ./manpage.1, whatever).  It will run zcat automatically just like
it does for regular manpages.

 :)

/mjt


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