From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Sep 20 13:10:38 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id NAA25406 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 20 Sep 1995 13:10:38 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id NAA25382 for ; Wed, 20 Sep 1995 13:10:27 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id WAA19260; Wed, 20 Sep 1995 22:10:15 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id WAA23379; Wed, 20 Sep 1995 22:10:15 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id VAA10702; Wed, 20 Sep 1995 21:00:52 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199509201900.VAA10702@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: man page writing To: gary@palmer.demon.co.uk (Gary Palmer) Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 21:00:52 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <1130.811557402@palmer.demon.co.uk> from "Gary Palmer" at Sep 20, 95 01:36:42 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 373 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Gary Palmer wrote: > > Don't suppose someone has a tutorial on how to use nroff -man macros > to write & format manpages? :-) -man or -doc? (the latter being what 4.4BSD is using) In case of -doc, RTFM mdoc.samples(7) :-) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)