From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 14 00:54:46 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1942916A4CE for ; Fri, 14 Jan 2005 00:54:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: from asclepius.uwa.edu.au (asclepius3.uwa.edu.au [130.95.128.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79E8843D3F for ; Fri, 14 Jan 2005 00:54:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from zanchey@mussel.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au) Received: from asclepius.kas (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by asclepius.uwa.edu.au (Postfix) with SMTP id 0D55A184937 for ; Fri, 14 Jan 2005 08:54:44 +0800 (WST) Received: from asclepius (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by asclepius.prekas (Postfix) with SMTP id F339D18491C for ; Fri, 14 Jan 2005 08:54:43 +0800 (WST) X-UWA-Client-IP: 130.95.13.9 (UWA) Received: from mooneye.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (mooneye.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au [130.95.13.9]) by asclepius.input (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBA0218491E for ; Fri, 14 Jan 2005 08:54:43 +0800 (WST) Received: by mooneye.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (Postfix, from userid 801) id 5677917F5D; Fri, 14 Jan 2005 08:54:43 +0800 (WST) Received: from mussel.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (mussel.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au [130.95.13.18]) by mooneye.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id C420117F5B; Fri, 14 Jan 2005 08:54:36 +0800 (WST) Received: from zanchey (helo=localhost) by mussel.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au with local-esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1CpFjY-0001MT-00; Fri, 14 Jan 2005 08:54:36 +0800 Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 08:54:36 +0800 (WST) From: David Adam To: Xian In-Reply-To: <200501140007.44584.ml-freebsd-newbies@codepad.net> Message-ID: References: <20050108170052.28548.qmail@gawab.com> <200501121846.00477.ml-freebsd-newbies@codepad.net> <200501140007.44584.ml-freebsd-newbies@codepad.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: David Adam X-SpamTest-Info: Profile: Formal (192/041231) X-SpamTest-Info: Profile: Detect Hard [UCS 290904] X-SpamTest-Info: Profile: SysLog X-SpamTest-Info: Profile: Marking Spam - Subject (UCS) [02-08-04] X-SpamTest-Status: Not detected X-SpamTest-Version: SMTP-Filter Version 2.0.0 [0125], KAS/Release cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: File System mounting prob X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 00:54:46 -0000 > 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