A variety of small but annoying bugs in A/UX 2.0.1
Matthias Urlichs
urlichs at smurf.sub.org
Sun Mar 31 11:06:33 AEST 1991
In comp.unix.aux, article <1991Mar28.074451.4116 at panix.uucp>,
alexis at panix.uucp (Alexis Rosen) writes:
<
< 4) man
< Speaking of man, there has been no fix for the problem of man not waiting
< at the end of one man page before showing the next. Also, it still has
< minor problems with I/O redirection. More importantly, the -T flag doesn't
< seem to work right- with "-Tdumb", the output is still full of backspaces
< and repeated characters. (Is this a bug or a 'feature?')
<
That's not a problem with "man", but with "more".
The easy fix is probably to install "less" and use that as pager.
While you're at it, move all that nonsense from /usr/catman/?.man/manN to
/usr/man/catN, for N = 1..8, and create directories /usr/man/manN for the
benefit of not having to edit every Makefile in existence.
You might also want to unpack all manual pages and re-compress them.
That will make them smaller.
My man script currently looks like this:
(it's very ugly, BTW -- someday soon I'll install the Perl manual package)
#!/bin/sh
#
BASE=/usr/man
sec=\?
dir=
cmd=
entries=
TTERM=
mypager=
if [ "$PAGER" = "" ]
then
pager="ul | more -u -f -s"
else
pager=$PAGER ## typically, "less -cemsi"
fi
roffer="nroff -man | col"
#
# parse options
for i in $*
do case $i in
[1-8]) sec=$i ;;
-d) dir=. ;;
-w) cmd=w ;;
-T*) TERM="`echo $i | sed 's/-T//'`" ;;
-12) TTERM=-12 ;;
*) entries="$entries $i" ;;
esac
done
# now find the named entries
for i in $entries
do
if [ "$dir" = "." ]
then if [ ! -r "$i" ]
then echo $0: $i not found >&2
# exit 1
else all="$all $i"
fi
else
cd $BASE
fil="`find *$sec/$i.* -print 2>/dev/null`"
if [ -n "$fil" ]
then all="$all $fil"
else echo $0: $i not found >&2
# exit 1
fi
fi
done
# now print the pages
if [ "$cmd" = "w" ]
then echo $all
exit 0
else for i in $all
do
case $i in
man*) printer="$roffer" ;;
cat*) printer="cat";;
*) printer="cat";;
esac
case $i in
*.Z) getter="zcat" ;;
*.z) getter="pcat" ;;
*) getter=" cat" ;;
esac
eval " $getter $i | $printer | $pager"
done
fi
--
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