Man pages under SunView

phill%med-image.compsci.bristol.ac.uk at nsfnet-relay.ac.uk phill%med-image.compsci.bristol.ac.uk at nsfnet-relay.ac.uk
Sun Jun 11 03:10:08 AEST 1989


You may be interested in the following short program that we use as a
replacement for man (1) under SunView here. It is called tman and has
exactly the same usage as man.

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#!/bin/sh
#
# Author: Phill Everson <everson at cs.bris.ac.uk>
# Date: 25th April, 1988
#
# Usage: tman [sect] [item] (see man(1))
# tman displays the manual page required in a textedit window

(man $* 2>/dev/null | colcrt - > /tmp/tman$$
textedit -Er on /tmp/tman$$
rm -f /tmp/tman$$ ) &
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Hope you like it ...

Phill Everson
Medical Imaging
Dept Comp Sci
University of Bristol, UK



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