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On Wed, 21 Aug 1996, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:

> No, you write it up as a man page and install it in
> ${PREFIX}/share/man/<relevant-section>/your-program.<n>.gz

OK..any tutorials about on how to write man pages or do I just look at the
source of existing man pages?

How do I link it in with the port? Its like haveing two distfiles...how
does this affect the makefile?

Andrew