Man page oddity

CodeHeads ch at code-heads.com
Wed Mar 29 18:05:10 UTC 2006


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On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 18:52:26 +0100
Anne Wilson <cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi, Will.  As you know, copy and paste from a terminal output of a man
> page takes a heck of a lot of cleaning up - which I presume is the
> point of your script.  Copy and paste from the kioslave output saves
> all that and can be printed from any text editor.
> 
> I was just curious as to why one man page would display correctly yet
> refuse to format for printing.  I've done it through the kioslave for
> many man pages without a problem.
> 
> If you've never tried it, in Konqueror's address bar, just enter
> man:whatever.
> 
> Anne

Yes Anne, that is why I wrote that little script, plus to practice bash
scripting! :)

I will have to try that in Konqueror. Nice little tip there Anne.

What man page are you having a problem with? I will test it out and see
what happens.

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