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Date:      Fri, 14 Jan 2005 00:07:44 +0000
From:      Xian <ml-freebsd-newbies@codepad.net>
To:        freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: File System mounting prob
Message-ID:  <200501140007.44584.ml-freebsd-newbies@codepad.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0501130927340.3938@mussel.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au>
References:  <20050108170052.28548.qmail@gawab.com> <200501121846.00477.ml-freebsd-newbies@codepad.net> <Pine.LNX.4.58.0501130927340.3938@mussel.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au>

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Cheers. I'll have that working in no time now

On Thursday 13 January 2005 02:02, David Adam wrote:
> unfortunately, they're written in a weird looking language.
> They're understandable, but only just.

That weird language is something that the man command can deal with. If you 
look at the other man pages on your system they are the same.

zmore /usr/share/man/man1/man.1.gz

I found this out when I wanted to write a man page for a project of mine, and 
I thought it might be in a language like HTML. No such luck. It appears it 
has references to macros or something. (I gave up on writing the man page in 
man language and used a text editor)

Anyway, they way to get round that I found is to put those man pages you 
mentioned into /usr/share/man/man5

-- 
/Xian

"C lets you shoot yourself in the foot. C++ lets you reuse the bullet"
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