XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10   
   From: nospam@needed.invalid   
      
   On Thu, 10/30/2025 5:19 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   > On Thu, 30 Oct 2025 10:16:29 +0000, MikeS wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 29/10/2025 21:57, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>> View nicely-typeset PDF version:   
   >>>   
   >>>      gunzip -c $(man -w bash) | groff -ktman -Tpdf | okular -   
   >>>   
   >> I thought you were advocating Linux as a nice, easy-to-use alternative   
   >> to nasty, user-unfriendly Windows ????????????????   
   >   
   > Feel free to show us how much easier it is to generate and view a PDF   
   > version of a man page on Dimdows ...   
   >   
      
   dir /?   # In Command Prompt shell   
   dir -?   # In Powershell   
      
   If you run Robocopy and dump the help, that is more   
   than a page long, of options.   
      
   Windows users aren't supposed to need Terminal, just   
   like Linux and MacOS would claim the same thing. Not having   
   manual pages, shouldn't be an issue... if you don't   
   drop to Terminal like the "ideal user" Microsoft dreams of :-)   
      
   You're supposed to "Rent Office and be happy".   
      
   *******   
      
   As for generating a PDF on Windows, there is the Microsoft "Print To PDF"   
   driver. And MSEdge can view a PDF, and it is quite capable. On a document   
   that caused Adobe Acrobat to choke and die, MSEdge ate the damn thing.   
   26000 pages long, as a test. It took eight minutes to do a   
   textual search from end to end, and by the time I got to the   
   end, Windows started to execute a "garbage collection routine"   
   to recover some RAM. Pretty impressive really, as normally   
   you expect Adobe to piss all over Microsoft when it comes   
   to capability.   
      
      Paul   
      
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