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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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