Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 19:10:54 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> To: William Michael Grim <wgrim@siue.edu> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What are .1 files in /usr/src? Message-ID: <20030508091054.GA6640@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SO4.4.05.10305080324001.12960-100000@cougar.isg.siue.edu> References: <Pine.SO4.4.05.10305080324001.12960-100000@cougar.isg.siue.edu>
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On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 03:25:47AM -0500, William Michael Grim wrote: >I was curious, what are all the .1 files in /usr/src? A couple examples >are /usr/src/bin/dd/dd.1 and /usr/src/bin/pax/pax.1. Are these some sort >of files that are converted to man pages in some way? If so, how is this >achieved? As already mentioned, they are the man pages. By default, they are gzip(1)'d into /usr/share/man/manX/ to save space. They are converted into formatted text using groff(1). As an example, you can get a PostScript version of the dd(1) man page with either of the following: groff -man /usr/src/bin/dd/dd.1 > dd.ps gzcat /usr/share/man/man1/dd.1.gz | groff -man > dd.ps Peter
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