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- From: jhp@photon.com (Jim Patterson)
- Subject: Re: writing man pages
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.160918.15065@photon.com>
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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 16:09:18 GMT
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- Stephen M. Wynne (stevemw@wvirginia.wv.tek.com) wrote:
- : In article <1hqdjfINNrlh@tamsun.tamu.edu> vamsee@abgen.tamu.edu (Vamsee Lakamsani) writes:
- :
- : > We have some in-house applications and we would like to write
- : > man pages for them so that these man pages look just like the
- : > standard UNIX man pages (describing command line options, version
- : > information etc.) What is the best way to do this on an SGI,
- :
- : > 1. If the system has nroff/troff ?
- : > 2. If the system does not have nroff/troff ?
- :
- : I realize that the DWB is a valuable product to ATT, and hence its
- : value-added (cough) price when UNIX distributors pass it on to us.
- : However, there is a nice package called groff from the GNU folks
- : that works really great. I'd like feedback from those of you who
- : are using it to completely replace the DWB -- I haven't successfully
- : gotten it to do things that the SGI versions of the DWB can do such
- : as formatting manual pages with the man(1) command. I format with
- : groff -man -Tascii > catn/foo.n.
-
- I have completely replaced DWB with groff. What I had to do was to
- link the groff executables to the names that the man command expects.
- You can find out what man wants by using the -p option. You also need
- to make the directories /usr/pub and /usr/lib/tmac. There needs to be
- any empty file /usr/pub/eqnchar and you need to copy the contents of
- the groff tmac directory to /usr/lib/tmac.
-
- Hope this helps,
-
- Jim
-
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