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man page format question, URL reference with a question mark

David Mathog

2008-03-12, 7:31 pm

I'm trying to format a man page which contains this reference to
a URL:

..nf
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/IP/bi...0&select=494356
..fi

so that it works in both regular man and in manServer 1.07 (which
converts these on the fly to HTML).

As shown it works ok in man, but not in manServer, which marks
everything up through aspx as a URL, and leaves the rest as plain text.

Escaping the question mark (\?) caused man to show:

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/IP/bipbuffer.aspx.fi

and manServer to show a flashing \?, with the rest as before.

Is there some (portable) man equivalent of the HTML ">" method, for
smuggling characters through?

Thanks,

David Mathog

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