man2dvi   [plain text]

#! /bin/sh
#
# script to format manpages to dvi
# Copyright (c) 1997 Tobias Begalke (tb@lst.de)
#

groff="groff -Tdvi -mandoc"

if [ ! $# = 1 ]; then
  echo "$0: usage:"
  echo "  $0 [topic] > topic.dvi"
  exit 1
fi

location=`man -c -w $1`

if [ "$location" = "" ]; then
  exit 1
fi

case `file $location` in
  *gzip* )
    zcat $location | $groff  
    ;;
  
  *troff* )
    $groff $location
    ;;
esac