This is the mail archive of the cygwin mailing list for the Cygwin project.


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]
Other format: [Raw text]

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
-- 
Can't think of a witty .sigline today....


--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]