Hi John,
John Gardner wrote on Mon, Jan 07, 2019 at 08:08:51PM +1100:
> $ GROFF_TMAC_PATH=`pwd` groff -Tutf8 -z -mtrace-paths -man `man -w man`
> Now, tell me. How could this trick go wrong...?
> uname -a
SunOS unstable11s 5.11 11.3 sun4u sparc SUNW,SPARC-Enterprise
> man -w man
usage: man [-] [-adFlprt] [-M path] [-T macro-package ]
[ -s section ] name ...
man [-M path] [-s section] -k keyword ...
man [-M path] -f file ...
man [-M path] [-s section] -K keyword ...
> GROFF_TMAC_PATH=`pwd` groff -Tutf8 -z -mtrace-paths -man
/usr/share/man/man1/man.1
/usr/share/groff/1.22.2/tmac/an.tmac
/usr/share/groff/1.22.2/tmac/troffrc-end
/usr/share/man/man1/man.1
> uname -a
SunOS unstable9s 5.9 Generic_Virtual sun4u sparc SUNW,SPARC-Enterprise-T5220
> man -w man
usage: man [-] [-adFlrt] [-M path] [-T macro-package ]
[ -s section ] name ...
man [-M path] -k keyword ...
man [-M path] -f file ...
> GROFF_TMAC_PATH=`pwd` groff -Tutf8 -z -mtrace-paths -man /usr/man/man1/cc.1
/opt/csw/lib/groff/site-tmac/an.tmac
/opt/csw/share/groff/1.21/tmac/troffrc-end
/usr/man/man1/cc.1
> find /usr -name man.1
/usr/share/man/sman1/man.1
> head -n 2 /usr/man/sman1/man.1
<!DOCTYPE REFENTRY PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems//DTD
DocBook V3.0-Based SolBook Subset V2.0//EN" [
<!--ArborText, Inc., 1988-1999, v.4002-->
Yes, that Solaris system provides the man(1) manual as a DocBook
document only, and it appears man(1) somehow formats that.
But your hack works, except that man(1) has no -w option.
Yours,
Ingo
