From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 12 4:27:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (whale.sunbay.crimea.ua [212.110.138.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D42F637CAE9 for ; Mon, 12 Jun 2000 04:27:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ru@whale.sunbay.crimea.ua) Received: (from ru@localhost) by whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (8.9.3/1.13) id OAA17276; Mon, 12 Jun 2000 14:26:49 +0300 (EEST) Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 14:26:49 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: Otter Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: manpage template Message-ID: <20000612142649.A17080@sunbay.com> Mail-Followup-To: Otter , questions@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from otterr@telocity.com on Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 07:12:14AM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 07:12:14AM +0000, Otter wrote: > I see all the manpages are basically written in the same fashion. > Except contributed manuals. > Is there a HOWTO for writing one? > See mdoc(7) and mdoc.samples(7). > Specifically, what I'm looking for is a definition of the numbering > on them. Some say to read (1), maybe (4) or (8). Where is there a > list of each of these numbers functions? I've yet to find one. > On a shell prompt, type: $ whatis intro Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Oracle Developer/DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message