[Gllug] Man pages with different character sets?

Richard Jones rich at annexia.org
Mon Dec 22 19:37:59 UTC 2008


On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 03:19:58PM +0000, - Tethys wrote:
> 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.

My assumption was that the 'man' command wasn't working for some
reason.

Rich.

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