From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Sep 26 18:44:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mta02-svc.ntlworld.com (mta02-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59C2E37B422 for ; Tue, 26 Sep 2000 18:44:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from parish ([62.253.88.131]) by mta02-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.27 201-229-119-110) with ESMTP id <20000927024333.TZGJ23965.mta02-svc.ntlworld.com@parish>; Wed, 27 Sep 2000 02:43:33 +0000 Received: (from mark@localhost) by parish (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e8R1jBD05733; Wed, 27 Sep 2000 02:45:11 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 02:45:10 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: Francisco Reyes Cc: Francisco Reyes , doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to change man pages? Message-ID: <20000927024510.J252@parish> References: <20000924204700.C255@parish> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from fran@reyes.somos.net on Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 02:14:20PM -0400 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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