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Questions - manpage

groff for Windows: man pages bad formatted when output in windows command prompt

From Windows command prompt I am using groff for Windows to display some man pages. I can see that some characters are not being correctly outputted and in some case depending on the device being pass...
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Willy

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manpage

groff

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Apparently, the Windows terminal does not understand the escape codes. If col is available on your system, you might: groff -man -Tascii mymanpage.1 | col -b |more
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Ljm Dullaart

Sphinx-build: using man builder name and checking whether created man pages are correctly displayed

I am new to sphinx and I have currently used it to generate man pages using the man builder name through sphinx-build. Man pages seems they are successfully generated since the final output after exec...
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Willy

python

python-sphinx

manpage

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I have finally found mandoc and groff for Windows. Also groff is discussed here as accepted answer. Usages from Windows command prompt groff: groff -Tascii -mm your_file | more for compatibility mode ...
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Willy

Why does read not have a normal man page?

I would love to learn more about 'read' so to enhance my shell scripting abilities. Usually when I have a thirst for knowledge for any program, I simply type: man [program] Then I learn how to work a...
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CyanMan2019

shell

manpage

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If your shell is bash, its builtin commands don't have individual man pages. Use help to see a list of builtins and help <command> to get help on an individual one. $ help GNU bash, version 5.1....
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