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Date:      Wed, 20 Apr 2022 10:26:40 +0200
From:      Ralf Mardorf <ralf-mardorf@riseup.net>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Conventions for FreeBSD manual pages
Message-ID:  <921cc7c2d2ce7811c7df5dec04fb0e357fc354fd.camel@riseup.net>
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On Wed, 2022-04-20 at 11:04 +0300, Yuri wrote:
> I don't see a question here

On Wed, 20 Apr 2022 07:46:54 +0100, Graham Perrin wrote:
>Please: does FreeBSD have anything like the Linux manual page for=20
>conventions?

Linux provides several entries related to man pages, FreeBSD does
provide several entries, too,
https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=3Dman&apropos=3D1&sektion=3D1&man=
path=3DFreeBSD+13.0-RELEASE+and+Ports&arch=3Ddefault&format=3Dhtml
:

man(1)
    display online manual documentation pages
man(7)
    legacy formatting language for manual pages
man.conf(5)
    man(1) and manpath(1) configuration files
manctl(8)
    manipulating manual pages
mandoc(1)
    format manual pages
mandoc_char(7)
    mandoc special characters
manpath(1)
    display search path for manual pages

The OP is missing a description of a man page's structure as given by
the Linux "man man-pages". However, the manual sections are provided by
FreeBSD's "man man", too.



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