[Gllug] Man pages with different character sets?

[- Tethys]

On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 3:10 PM, Richard Jones <rich at annexia.org> wrote:


>  zcat /usr/share/man/man1/aptitude.1.gz | groff -man -Tascii | less

Yep, or just:

    man /usr/share/man/man1/aptitude.1.gz

Any halfway recent version of man knows how to uncompress and format
the page without needing to explicitly do it yourself.

Tet

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