From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Aug 5 12:00:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA11430 for ports-outgoing; Mon, 5 Aug 1996 12:00:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from po1.glue.umd.edu (po1.glue.umd.edu [129.2.128.44]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA11425 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 1996 12:00:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ginger.eng.umd.edu (ginger.eng.umd.edu [129.2.103.20]) by po1.glue.umd.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA03515; Mon, 5 Aug 1996 15:00:11 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by ginger.eng.umd.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA11465; Mon, 5 Aug 1996 15:00:10 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: ginger.eng.umd.edu: chuckr owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 5 Aug 1996 15:00:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@ginger.eng.umd.edu To: James FitzGibbon cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Writing man pages In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 5 Aug 1996, James FitzGibbon wrote: > > Question: if the author of a program provides no manpage-style > documentation, is it customary for the porter to create one ? If so, can > someone point be to a resource on writing man pages ? Well, it'd be kinda unusual, yes, but appreciated! The only stuff I know is in the mdoc and mdoc.sample man pages, and perusing other man pages to see how it's done. > > -- > j. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > | James FitzGibbon james@nexis.net | > | Integrator, The Nexis Group Voice/Fax : 416 410-0100 | > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and n3lxx, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 2.2 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------