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Re: Terrific "man -> preview" snippet
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John Delacour <[log in to unmask]>
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Macintosh Scripting Systems <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Mon, 16 Jan 2006 22:12:47 +0000
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At 9:01 pm +0000 16/1/06, John Delacour wrote:

>--------
>set x to text returned of Â
>   (display dialog "Command to man:" default answer "")
>do shell script Â
>   "cd /tmp;man -t " &x& " > " &x& ".ps; open -a preview " &x& ".ps"
>--------

That will need a little elaboration.  If I answer File::Path or some 
other Perl module, it fails, for obvious reasons.

JD

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