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From: Sidney Lambe on 15 Mar 2010 14:23 On comp.os.linux.misc, Sidney Lambe <sidneylambe(a)nospam.invalid> wrote: > On comp.os.linux.misc, Todd <todd(a)invalid.com> wrote: > >> On 03/15/2010 09:57 AM, unruh wrote: >> >>> Now if the OP had told us what his concern was, we could have >>> given more and better advice. >> >> I wanted to add a couple of lines to a man pages, of course! > > Gunzip the man page and open it in a text editor and > put something like this at the bottom of the page: > > # .SH MY ADDED NOTES > # Paragraph one. Second sentence.. > # .PP > # paragraph two. > # Second sentence. Don't include the #'s and the space after them. Newsservers react in specific ways to periods at the beginning of a line, so that's to keep this from happenning. > > Then gzip it.. > > You can convert manpages to plain text with: > > man <whatever> | col -bx > Sid
From: Loki Harfagr on 15 Mar 2010 14:35 Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:10:07 -0500, John Hasler did cat : > J G Miller writes: >> Does anybody ever bother to read Info pages? > > When both are available I prefer them. when both are available and the man page is almost void but the adds for going to info page I prefer them ,-) now, if there's a command to quick/directly export info page to some directly useable format like plain text I'll be grateful (kinda like 'links -dump' or 'man -P cat'), as, sadly, so far I've not been able to have a vacation time long enough to fully read the info page about how to use the info browser hence I failed at finding the magic command ,-)
From: John Hasler on 15 Mar 2010 14:53 Loki writes: > now, if there's a command to quick/directly export info page to some > directly useable format like plain text I'll be grateful Use the source (the .texi source the info doc was generated from): makeinfo --plaintext <document>.texi -- John Hasler jhasler(a)newsguy.com Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI USA
From: unruh on 15 Mar 2010 15:12 On 2010-03-15, Todd <todd(a)invalid.com> wrote: > On 03/15/2010 09:57 AM, unruh wrote: > >> Now if the OP had told us what his concern was, we could have given more >> and better advice. > > I wanted to add a couple of lines to a man pages, of course! Send it to the man page maintainer, the program maintainer, and your distro maintainer.
From: Grant on 15 Mar 2010 16:34
On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:08:03 GMT, markhobley(a)hotpop.donottypethisbit.com (Mark Hobley) wrote: >Todd <todd(a)invalid.com> wrote: >> Hi Unruh, >> >> What good would that do if I do not know where to >> send it to? > >If you have written some man pages, then post them to comp.sources.unix and I >will add them to the missing man resources. > >http://markhobley.yi.org/manpages/missingman.html Another resource is: http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ These are for system stuff, not userland. Grant. |