From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 10 14:44:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.sfba.home.com (ha1.rdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.0.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 396361576F for ; Fri, 10 Sep 1999 14:44:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwakers@home.com) Received: from c67050-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com ([24.5.221.231]) by mail.rdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.00 201-229-111) with SMTP id <19990910214431.IPSC9808.mail.rdc1.sfba.home.com@c67050-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com>; Fri, 10 Sep 1999 14:44:31 -0700 Received: by c67050-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com with Microsoft Mail id <01BEFB9B.7199F390@c67050-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com>; Fri, 10 Sep 1999 14:47:45 -0700 Message-ID: <01BEFB9B.7199F390@c67050-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com> From: "Michael W. Akers" To: Mark Ovens , 'Evren Yurtesen' Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: RE: man page weirdness! Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 14:47:44 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The original 'man' doc format is 'troff' also called dotted command tag = format, think of html but with .xx as a format command instead of = . Do a man troff for more info. Mike Akers M. Akers Enterprises ---------- From: Evren Yurtesen [SMTP:yurtesen@ispro.net.tr] Sent: Friday, September 10, 1999 1:42 PM To: Mark Ovens Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: man page weirdness! 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message