Perl 3.0 manual
Wolf Paul
wnp at attctc.Dallas.TX.US
Mon Sep 11 08:55:59 AEST 1989
In article <14220 at bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> drw at math.mit.edu (Dale R. Worley) writes:
>Am I the only one who has a hard time getting part 2 of the manual
>through nroff? I try
>
> nroff -man perl.man.2 [or whatever] >file
>
>and I find that much of the output is in a strange one-word-per-line
>format.
The four parts of perl.man are designed to be concatenated into
one file prior to running through [nt]roff.
There is some initialization code (i.e. page params, macro defs, etc)
at the beginning of perl.man.1 which is not in the other files; thus
running them through individually does not work.
If you don't want to create a large file containing perl.man (ca. 140K),
try this:
cat perl.man.? | nroff -man > file
That should work -- at least it did for me.
Wolf
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