drw@math.mit.edu (Dale R. Worley) (09/11/89)
Am I the only one who has a hard time getting part 2 of the manual through nroff? I try nroff -man perl.man.2 [or whatever] >file and I find that much of the output is in a strange one-word-per-line format. Dale
wnp@attctc.Dallas.TX.US (Wolf Paul) (09/11/89)
In article <14220@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> drw@math.mit.edu (Dale R. Worley) writes: >Am I the only one who has a hard time getting part 2 of the manual >through nroff? I try > > nroff -man perl.man.2 [or whatever] >file > >and I find that much of the output is in a strange one-word-per-line >format. The four parts of perl.man are designed to be concatenated into one file prior to running through [nt]roff. There is some initialization code (i.e. page params, macro defs, etc) at the beginning of perl.man.1 which is not in the other files; thus running them through individually does not work. If you don't want to create a large file containing perl.man (ca. 140K), try this: cat perl.man.? | nroff -man > file That should work -- at least it did for me. Wolf -- Wolf N. Paul * 3387 Sam Rayburn Run * Carrollton TX 75007 * (214) 306-9101 UUCP: {texbell, attctc, dalsqnt}!dcs!wnp DOMAIN: wnp@attctc.dallas.tx.us or wnp%dcs@texbell.swbt.com NOTICE: As of July 3, 1989, "killer" has become "attctc".