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From: twinsun!ata!eggert@uunet.uu.net (Paul Eggert)
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Subject: psman for those who lack ditroff (for OpenWindows 2)
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Message-ID: <1990Oct7.233811.6815@rice.edu>
Date: 7 Oct 90 21:30:00 GMT
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X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 9, Issue 316, message 35

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 ${1+"$@"}