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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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