From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 10 13:43:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from finland.ispro.net.tr (finland.ispro.net.tr [195.174.18.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9962814F4F for ; Fri, 10 Sep 1999 13:43:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from yurtesen@ispro.net.tr) Received: from ispro.net.tr (dyn-1-093.tku.netti.fi [195.16.222.94]) by finland.ispro.net.tr (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA00128; Fri, 10 Sep 1999 23:41:49 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from yurtesen@ispro.net.tr) Message-ID: <37D96D30.C9432B24@ispro.net.tr> Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 23:42:24 +0300 From: Evren Yurtesen X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Ovens Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: man page weirdness! References: <37CC03DA.7C547D28@ispro.net.tr> <19990831191419.F271@marder-1> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG how can I find information about the original man page format? Evren Mark Ovens wrote: > On Tue, Aug 31, 1999 at 07:33:30PM +0300, Evren Yurtesen wrote: > > hello, > > I have tried to create a man page using the examples at > > /usr/share/examples/mdocs > > (or something like that) and I have been successfull ! > > > > But, the problem is the man pages I made are working on FreeBSD but not > > on > > HPUX or Solaris (these are the only other platforms I could test) > > > > Is there any standarts on these man pages ? how can I write a man page > > which > > is compatible with other operating systems' man command? > > > > The FreeBSD manpages are in -mdoc format, not -man (well most of > them). A list was posted on -doc recently listing those still in > -man format. I've tried viewing FreeBSD manpages on a Sun (so I > could print them) and only a few worked as the mdoc macros are > different on Suns (SunOS 4.1.3 at least). > > Have you tried with some of the other tmac macros on HPUX & Solaris, > in /usr/share/tmac/, or similar, with nroff(1)? > > > thanks > > Evren Yurtesen > > yurtesen@ispro.net.tr > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > -- > STATE-OF-THE-ART: Any computer you can't afford. > OBSOLETE: Any computer you own. > ________________________________________________________________ > FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org > My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ > mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message