From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 10 20:42:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from localhost.zilker.net (jump-tnt-0151.customer.jump.net [207.8.127.151]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B486C14BCD for ; Fri, 10 Sep 1999 20:42:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marquard@zilker.net) Received: (from marquard@localhost) by localhost.zilker.net (8.9.3/8.8.8) id WAA00928; Fri, 10 Sep 1999 22:42:12 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from marquard) To: "Michael W. Akers" Cc: Mark Ovens , "'Evren Yurtesen'" , "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: man page weirdness! References: <01BEFB9B.7199F390@c67050-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Dave Marquardt Date: 10 Sep 1999 22:42:11 -0500 In-Reply-To: "Michael W. Akers"'s message of "Fri, 10 Sep 1999 14:47:44 -0700" Message-ID: <85aequcdws.fsf@localhost.zilker.net> Lines: 77 User-Agent: Gnus/5.07008 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.80) XEmacs/20.4 (Emerald) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Michael W. Akers" writes: > 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. Yes, so are the current man pages. I think Mark is Evren is looking for documentation on the man macros. Try man 7 man > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message