Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 14:14:15 -0600 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: SPYRIDON PAPADOPOULOS <SP373@student.apu.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to create a manual page in FreeBSD Message-ID: <20060112201415.GB44823@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> In-Reply-To: <1137094538.8ba70fa0SP373@student.apu.ac.uk> References: <1137094538.8ba70fa0SP373@student.apu.ac.uk>
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On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 07:35:38PM +0000, SPYRIDON PAPADOPOULOS wrote: > Hi all, > > Can anyone describe/give info, of how one can create a manual page for > a custom program in FreeBSD. A manual page that would be accessible > through the #man command. Is it possible? Study troff and write your man page with any old text editor. Suggest you place it in /usr/local/man/ the same as many others. Easier than learning troff from the beginning would be to take an existing man page and make a copy of it. Edit the copy. Proofread every little change. Suggest /usr/share/man1/man.1.gz would be a good man page to use as your template. Gzipping man pages is optional. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@HiWAAY.net ======================================================================== Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.
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