[Suns-at-Home] Re: xterm number of columns when performing man pages display

[Charles Lindsey]

On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 17:05:30 -0000, <suns-at-home-request@net-kitchen.com>  
wrote:



> Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 17:59:51 +0100
> From: "Lewis, Benjamin \(Ben\)" <blewis3@lucent.com>

> 1st Greybeard : "In my day we didn't have none of your fancy mice, we
> had to type it all in by hand".
> 2nd Greybeard : "Keyboard!? Luxury! In my day we all we had were toggle
> switches and we liked 'em!".
> 3rd Greybeard : "Toggle switches! Pah! All we had was a ha'penny screw
> driver to short the pins".
> 4th Greybeard : "Screw driver!".

The trouble with all you beardless wonders is that you have forgotten your  
basic UNIX skills, of which writing NROFF is one.

Find the file /usr/lib/tmac/an

Find the line in it which says
     .nr LL \\n(.l
and change it to
     .nr LL 130n
or whatever width you want.

Job done!



> Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 23:09:48 -0500
> From: Scott Stevens <sastevens@earthlink.net>

> My suggestion, since the original comment is about sizing the pages in  
> an Xterm, would be to use Xman.  Nice man pages, indexed and browsable  
> by section, nice sized window in X to contain the pages.

The trouble with xman is that it won't do the manual pages written in SGML  
(not that there are many of those left now).

I have a program mxman, which is xman rewritten to use Motif instead of  
the clunky Athena Widgets. But I am still working on it, and likely to be  
in that state for a looong while to come :-( .

But if my arm is twisted, I might put a sparc beta version up somewhere.

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