Re: Online copies of textinfo content available?
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- Subject: Re: Online copies of textinfo content available?
- From: Erik Christiansen <dvalin@internode.on.net>
- Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2018 14:53:26 +1100
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On 29.10.18 10:58, David Wright wrote:
> On Sat 27 Oct 2018 at 09:19:15 (+0100), mick crane wrote:
> > I made the mistake of printing out man bash once. It's really, really long
>
> Some of the longer man pages (eg bash, fvwm, video programs) are
> rather unmanageable when just presented as flat text, even when
> coloured, but I find this line useful for generating a little
> library of PDFs that are much easier to skim through with your
> favourite viewer:
>
> $ man -t foo | ps2pdf - - > path-to-your-library/foo.pdf
There's also:
man2html - browse man pages in your web browser
man2html-base - convert man pages into HTML format
(Not tried here - I'm fine with monochrome manpages.)
Erik
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