Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 02:45:10 +0100 From: Mark Ovens <marko@freebsd.org> To: Francisco Reyes <fran@reyes.somos.net> Cc: Francisco Reyes <lists@reyes.somos.net>, doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to change man pages? Message-ID: <20000927024510.J252@parish> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009251412340.511-100000@zoraida.reyes.somos.net>; from fran@reyes.somos.net on Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 02:14:20PM -0400 References: <20000924204700.C255@parish> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009251412340.511-100000@zoraida.reyes.somos.net>
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On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 02:14:20PM -0400, Francisco Reyes wrote: > On Sun, 24 Sep 2000, Mark Ovens wrote: > > > From what I read this is not part of the Doc project. > > > > Oh yes they are > > > Is this mentioned anywhere? Not that I know of > I did not see anything on the doc project pages. > Also it would be helpfull to have some info or pointers about how one goes > about working with man pages. > As I said in a previous post, read mdoc.samples(7), that's all I had available (plus existing manpage files) when I learned. Tip: gunzip(1) a manpage to /tmp # gunzip -c /path/to/foobar.1.gz > /tmp/foobar.1 investigate it/play with it and to view it use: # nroff -mandoc /tmp/foobar.1 | more man(1) will only find manpages if they are in a sub-dir called man[1-9] of a directory called ``man'', e.g. /some/path/man/man1/foobar.1.gz. The ``-M'' option only changes the name of the parent (man) directory. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message -- 4.4 - The number of the Beastie ________________________________________________________________ 51.44°N FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org 2.057°W My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark mailto:marko@freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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