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Date:      Fri, 10 Dec 1999 15:55:35 -0500 (EST)
From:      will andrews <andrews@technologist.com>
To:        (Bruce A. Mah) <bmah@CA.Sandia.GOV>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: Creating a port:  Manpage question
Message-ID:  <XFMail.991210155535.andrews@technologist.com>
In-Reply-To: <199912101653.IAA92410@nimitz.ca.sandia.gov>

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On 10-Dec-99 Bruce A. Mah wrote:
> Quick question, whose answer I couldn't find in the handbook:
> 
> When creating a port, what's the right procedure for installing a 
> *formatted* manpage?
> 
> (The problem I have is that the original distfile doesn't supply troff
> source for the manpage, just the nroff output.)

Sounds like you just need a nroff->troff converter then INSTALL_MAN manpage and
use MANX where X = section of manpage.

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