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From: Paul de Weerd <weerd@...>
To: L?VAI D?niel <leva@...>
Cc: OpenBSD misc <misc@...>
Subject: Re: making man(1) to open a file
Date: Sunday, September 21, 2008 - 6:33 pm

On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 09:22:24PM +0200, L?VAI D?niel wrote:

| Hi!

|

| I think there is a way for this but I can not find it in man's man :)

|

| Like in Linux there is a `-l' option to man(1) which opens a Local file,

| like man -l /usr/local/man/man1/somemanpage.1. I'm in trouble opening

| net-snmp package's snmpd(8) or snmpd.conf(5) man page, because it

| conflicts with the base's snmpd's man pages. Now I'm reading it with

| less, but it is less convenient :)

|

| Thanks for the help!


Next to the useful suggestions you've received so far, you can try


	groff -man -Tascii /path/to/manpage.X | less


to render the specific page. 


Cheers,


Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd


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Re: making man(1) to open a file, Paul de Weerd, (Sun Sep 21, 6:33 pm)
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