Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 08:54:36 +0800 (WST) From: David Adam <zanchey@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> To: Xian <ml-freebsd-newbies@codepad.net> Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: File System mounting prob Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0501140853020.12638@mussel.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <200501140007.44584.ml-freebsd-newbies@codepad.net> 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> <200501140007.44584.ml-freebsd-newbies@codepad.net>
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> 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 Wow. Now *that* is a useful command. Why doesn't the docproj pages mention that? > 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) It's called nroff from memory... very oldskool UNIX. Cheers, David Adam zanchey@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
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