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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