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Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen

From Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen
Date 2021-10-02 03:00 +0200
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On Fri, Oct 01, 2021 at 05:44:41PM -0700, Fred wrote:
> man command | col -b > command.txt

Curious.

unicorn:~$ man ls > ls1
unicorn:~$ man ls | col -b > ls2
unicorn:~$ ls -l ls1 ls2
-rw-r--r-- 1 greg greg 8299 Oct  1 20:49 ls1
-rw-r--r-- 1 greg greg 7745 Oct  1 20:49 ls2

Glancing at the diff -u between the two files, most of the changes
appear to be whitespace related.

Opening them both in vim, the second one has a bunch of literal tab
characters, whereas the first one has no tabs at all -- only spaces.

So I guess most (or all?) of the size reduction is groups of spaces
being replaced by tabs.

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What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-10-01 18:30 +0200
  Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com> - 2021-10-01 18:40 +0200
    Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-10-01 23:00 +0200
      Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-10-01 23:10 +0200
        Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-10-01 23:30 +0200
          Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-10-01 23:40 +0200
      Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen Fred <fred@blakemfg.com> - 2021-10-02 02:50 +0200
        Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-10-02 03:00 +0200
          Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-10-02 05:00 +0200
            Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-10-02 13:30 +0200
              Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-10-02 15:00 +0200
          Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-10-02 13:20 +0200
        Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-10-02 11:40 +0200
  Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen Cindy Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2021-10-01 18:50 +0200
    Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-10-01 23:10 +0200
  Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2021-10-01 20:00 +0200
    Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it  on-screen Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> - 2021-10-01 20:10 +0200
    Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-10-01 23:10 +0200
      Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-10-01 23:20 +0200
        Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-10-01 23:40 +0200
          Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-10-02 17:20 +0200
            Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-10-02 21:50 +0200
              Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-10-02 22:10 +0200
                Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-10-02 23:40 +0200
              Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it  on-screen Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> - 2021-10-02 23:10 +0200
  Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-10-01 21:50 +0200
    Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-10-01 23:20 +0200
  Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> - 2021-10-02 13:50 +0200
    Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-10-02 14:50 +0200
    Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-10-02 15:10 +0200
      Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-10-02 16:40 +0200
        Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> - 2021-10-02 18:00 +0200
          Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-10-02 19:40 +0200
      Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> - 2021-10-02 18:00 +0200

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