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Re: How to read *.man files (for example in /lib/cvs/contrib)?
Charles Wilson wrote:
> A. Lioubimov wrote:
>
> > Thank you, but i don't know how yo use `man' for reading standalone
files.
> > What is the command line?
> >
> If you want to read an *uninstalled* man page, use this:
>
>
> groff -Tascii -mandoc foo.1
>
> --Chuck
>From de man manpage:
If name contains a / then it is first tried as a filename, so that you can
do man ./foo.5 or even man /cd/foo/bar.1.gz.
Gilgamesh
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