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From: eggert@ata.twinsun.com (Paul Eggert)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: psman for those who lack ditroff (for OpenWindows 2)
Message-ID: <1990Aug31.211405.2401@twinsun.com>
Date: 31 Aug 90 21:14:05 GMT
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Organization: Twin Sun, Inc
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The following 'psman' shell script is designed for OpenWindows 2 sites who lack
ditroff.  It is plug-compatible with the OW2 psman.  This shell script is in
the public domain.

'thack' is available from most comp.sources.misc servers (e.g. uunet).
I believe the Rice server also has it.  The latest version of thack is patch 6.

#! /bin/sh

# Display man pages on OpenWindows 2 using thack.

# This command accepts the options of both pageview(1) and man(1);
# pageview options, if any, must come first.

#	by Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
#	$Id: psman,v 1.2 1990/08/31 21:01:57 eggert Exp $

pageview="pageview -mono"

while :
do
	case $1 in
	-display|-dpi|-geometry|-h|-w)
		pageview="$pageview $1 $2"
		shift; shift;;
	-left|-mono|-right|-upsidedown)
		pageview="$pageview $1"
		shift;;
	*)
		break;;
	esac
done

TCAT="sh -c 'thack <\$0 | $pageview -'"
export TCAT

exec man -t ${1+"$@"}