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RE: Manual page width is fixed and I'd like it not to be
- From: "Dave Korn" <dk at artimi dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 15:32:31 -0000
- Subject: RE: Manual page width is fixed and I'd like it not to be
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID)
> Sent: 24 November 2004 14:12
> At Tuesday, November 23, 2004 7:12 PM, Brian Dessent wrote:
> >
> > On a 130 char wide screen, running man results in the following
> > process tree, from ps --forest:
> >
> > man man
> > \_ sh -c (echo '.ll 126n'; /usr/bin/zsoelim /tmp/zmanc7tnnh) | \
> > /usr/bin/tbl | /usr/bin/nroff -mandoc -rLL=126n -rLT=126n \
> > -Tascii | less
> > \_ /usr/bin/tbl
> > \_ /bin/sh /usr/bin/nroff -mandoc -rLL=126n -rLT=126n -Tascii
> > | \_ groff -mtty-char -Tascii -mandoc -rLL=126n -rLT=126n
> > | \_ troff -mtty-char -mandoc -rLL=126n -rLT=126n -Tascii
> > | \_ grotty
> > \_ less
>
> How does one get ps --forest to work?
By doing so on Brian's debian box.
cheers,
DaveK
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