Changes between Version 7 and Version 8 of AndreesStuff

Timestamp:

Aug 5, 2006, 7:52:50 AM (19 years ago)

Author:

andree

Comment:

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AndreesStuff

@@ -92 +92 @@
 Install Debian package 'libdate-manip-perl'.
 
+=== /bin/sh: man2dvi: command not found ===
+
+Unfortunately, Debian does not have a package that would provide this tool. Fortuntely it is just a little shell script:
+{{{
+#! /bin/sh
+#
+# script to format manpages to dvi
+# Copyright (c) 1997 Tobias Begalke (tb@lst.de)
+#
+# Changelog:
+# 23May06AL: - extracted from upstream man-1.6c package which can be found at
+#              http://primates.ximian.com/~flucifredi/man/
+#            - changed:
+#                location=`man -c -w $1`
+#              to:
+#                location=`man -w $1`
+#
+
+groff="groff -Tdvi -mandoc"
+
+if [ ! $# = 1 ]; then
+  echo "$0: usage:"
+  echo "  $0 [topic] > topic.dvi"
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+location=`man -w $1`
+
+if [ "$location" = "" ]; then
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+case `file $location` in
+  *gzip* )
+    zcat $location | $groff
+    ;;
+
+  *troff* )
+    $groff $location
+    ;;
+esac
+}}}
+Save the abive in e.g. /usr/local/bin/man2dvi and make the resulting file executable.
+
 === make: docbook2ps: Command not found ===