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Date:      Fri, 8 Mar 1996 01:45:02 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Subject:   Re: man page hacking
Message-ID:  <199603080045.BAA18580@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199603070907.KAA16982@nixpbe.pdb.sni.de> from "Greg Lehey" at Mar 7, 96 10:04:17 am

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As Greg Lehey wrote:

> > RTFM :-)
> 
> Where?

> That's only part of the story.  A large number of man pages are
> written with the an (-man) macros, and I haven't been able to find any
> documentation for them either (on any platform, for that matter).

The question was about new man pages, that's why -mdoc.

The -man macros are rather limited in their features.  That's why the
output created by them is called ``people's pages''. :-)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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