Re: Man pages
Andrew Sullivan (asullivan@sprint.ca)
Sun, 1 Nov 1998 14:28:49 -0500 (EST)
On Sat, 31 Oct 1998, David Mihm wrote:
> I didn't include the suggestions here, hopefully you still have a
> copy. I am begining to intergrate your suggestions, and I don't see how
> you arrived at the line numbering. At 80 characters per column (as an
> example) the first suggestion in Animate on line 73 "color" is on line 57
> for me. I'm not sure what you used to view them or how it arrived at the
> line numbers - maybe you could shed some light on this. Some are easy to
> figure out, but others aren't so easy. :)
Uh-oh. I read them with "less". But I realise now (what a moron I am)
that this did all the usual interpretation of the file in order to display
as a full man page.
Geez. I've only been in school about a hundred million years. Guess this
is the much-maligned absent-mindedness setting in. I'm sorry. Do you
want me to go through them, doing it again (i.e. to fix up the line
numbers)?
A.
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