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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? OSX 10.14 Mojave Commands - 13K+ Total Man Pages in Repository Post 303024364 by Neo on Sunday 7th of October 2018 05:28:21 AM
Old 10-07-2018
No.. Need the full page distributions (without symlinks and no hard links if possible), not links to other sites and place.

Links to other sites change, break and are harder to maintain than the distros on site.

I already have written the the code to process most man page formats, and will write more later this year (for the odds ones like AIX, etc).

Plus, many of the pages in our repo are from older UNIXes which are not upgrading. We need the current man page repos from the UNIX and Linux distros which are still actively evolving.

Thanks.

EDIT:

I have no objections if anyone wants to build and maintain a page or two of links to on-line man pages for all varieties of UNIX and Linux. If you do, please include a link to where we can also download the complete man page distribution in (in a tar.gz file for example).

For my project, I need the actual troff / groff formatted man pages, in a directory tree with man pages in sections (directories)...

Like this:

Code:
CYBER-SA:tmp Tim$ cd /usr/share/man

CYBER-SA:man Tim$ ls -l
total 1024
drwxr-xr-x   1339 root  wheel   42848 Oct  6 08:56 man1
drwxr-xr-x    254 root  wheel    8128 Sep 18 23:23 man2
drwxr-xr-x  10340 root  wheel  330880 Sep 18 23:23 man3
drwxr-xr-x     48 root  wheel    1536 Jun 22 15:51 man4
drwxr-xr-x    195 root  wheel    6240 Oct  6 08:56 man5
drwxr-xr-x      3 root  wheel      96 Jun  9 13:18 man6
drwxr-xr-x     54 root  wheel    1728 Aug 29 12:38 man7
drwxr-xr-x    687 root  wheel   21984 Oct  6 08:56 man8
drwxr-xr-x     23 root  wheel     736 Jun 11 09:21 man9
drwxr-xr-x    661 root  wheel   21152 Aug 29 12:38 mann
-rw-r--r--      1 root  wheel  498861 Oct  6 20:55 whatis

And a section directory looks like this (with all files gzipped, if possible, it not, I will gzip them myself):

Code:
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    10177 Jul  6 15:44 ab.1
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      280 Jun 10 15:43 accesstool.1
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel     2816 Jun  9 13:17 addftinfo.1
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      905 Jun 10 13:59 afconvert.1
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel     1150 Jun 10 13:59 afhash.1
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      982 Jun 10 13:58 afida.1
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      711 Jun 10 13:59 afinfo.1
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel     7746 Jun  9 13:17 afmtodit.1
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      821 Jun 10 13:59 afplay.1
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      585 Jun  9 13:22 afscexpand.1
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel     2069 Jun  9 14:55 agentxtrap.1
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel       19 Jun  9 13:15 alias.1
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel       19 Jun  9 13:15 alloc.1
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      401 Jun  9 14:21 analyticsd.1

No symbolic links (all should be resolved when tar'ed up)... Thanks.
 

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XScreenSaver(1) 					      General Commands Manual						   XScreenSaver(1)

NAME
drift - draws drifting recursive fractal cosmic flames SYNOPSIS
drift [-display host:display.screen] [-foreground color] [-background color] [-window] [-root] [-mono] [-install] [-visual visual] [-ncol- ors integer] [-delay microseconds] [-count integer] [-grow] [-no-grow] [-liss] [-no-liss] DESCRIPTION
The drift program draws drifting recursive fractal cosmic flames OPTIONS
drift accepts the following options: -window Draw on a newly-created window. This is the default. -root Draw on the root window. -mono If on a color display, pretend we're on a monochrome display. -install Install a private colormap for the window. -visual visual Specify which visual to use. Legal values are the name of a visual class, or the id number (decimal or hex) of a specific visual. -ncolors integer How many colors should be used (if possible). Default 200. The colors used cycle through the hue, making N stops around the color wheel. -count integer -grow -no-grow Whether fractals should grow; otherwise, they are animated. -liss -no-liss Whether we should use lissojous figures to get points. ENVIRONMENT
DISPLAY to get the default host and display number. XENVIRONMENT to get the name of a resource file that overrides the global resources stored in the RESOURCE_MANAGER property. SEE ALSO
flame(1), X(1), xscreensaver(1), xlock(1) COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 1991, 1995 by Scott Draves. Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, pro- vided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in sup- porting documentation. AUTHOR
Scott Draves <spot@cs.cmu.edu>, 06-Jun-91, 01-Jun-95. Ability to run standalone or with xscreensaver added by Jamie Zawinski <jwz@jwz.org>, 10-May-97. X Version 11 10-May-97 XScreenSaver(1)
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