From owner-freebsd-doc Fri Mar 29 12:34:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from lists.blarg.net (lists.blarg.net [206.124.128.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C7A237B405; Fri, 29 Mar 2002 12:34:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from thig.blarg.net (thig.blarg.net [206.124.128.18]) by lists.blarg.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33EEABDE2; Fri, 29 Mar 2002 12:34:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([206.124.139.115]) by thig.blarg.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA24300; Fri, 29 Mar 2002 12:34:16 -0800 Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.3) id g2TKWkd11721; Fri, 29 Mar 2002 12:32:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@blarg.net) To: Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: docs/36461: [PATCH] dd(1) References: <200203290730.g2T7U7O33258@freefall.freebsd.org> From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 29 Mar 2002 12:32:46 -0800 In-Reply-To: <200203290730.g2T7U7O33258@freefall.freebsd.org> Message-ID: <1npu1ncdxt.u1n@localhost.localdomain> Lines: 16 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org writes: > macro or something... Oh well, the output looked ok when I did an > nroff -man dd.1 on my machine... You probably know mdoc at least as well as I do. I'm trying to avoid doing something that urgently needs doing, so I tried your patch with: -- groff -mandoc -Tascii $@ | less [my little script; I don't know what the best "man" imitator is] -- man [gzip'd it next to dd.1.gz as xxx.1.gz] -- xemacs's manual-entry It is probably wrong in bolding things other than "conv" and "value", but I wouldn't worry about that if I were you. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message