*> This is an excellent resource that I hadn't seen before.* I was wondering why I hadn't seen this before either. I wished I'd found it earlier.
It isn't included in OpenBSD's source tree, nor is it present in the system's documentation. Is there any reason for this? *> IME `catman' pages are dying out, deservedly.* Glad to hear this. Hopefully they perish soon. :-) On Sun, 2 Sep 2018 at 20:50, Ralph Corderoy <ra...@inputplus.co.uk> wrote: > Hi Ingo, > > Colin wrote: > > Ingo wrote: > > > http://mandoc.bsd.lv/man/man.options.1.html#l > > > > This is an excellent resource that I hadn't seen before. > > Hear hear. > > However, I found it hard to interpret and so read the fine description > at the top of the page. Even then, the presentation in firefox 61.0.2-1 > misleads because a larger vertical gap separates related functional > description from the following programs than those programs from the > next description. > > ┌ -l spool the output > │ > │ > └ groff: probably before groff-0.4 (before July 14, 1990) > > ┌ interpret arguments as file names > │ > │ > ├ man: before man-2.2a7 (before Nov 16, 1994), OpenBSD 5.7 (Aug 30, > 2014) > │ > │ > └ apropos, whatis, mandoc: OpenBSD 5.7 (Aug 30, 2014) > > ┌ do not trim output to the terminal width > │ > │ > └ apropos, whatis: man-db (Aug 19, 2007) > > ┌ only parse NAME sections > │ > │ > └ makemandb: NetBSD (Feb 7, 2012) > > ┌ legacy mode: search Nm,Nd, no context or formatting > │ > │ > └ apropos: NetBSD (March 29, 2013) > > ┌ list all manual pages matching name within the search path > │ > │ > └ man: illumos, Solaris 9-11 > > -- > Cheers, Ralph. > https://plus.google.com/+RalphCorderoy > >
