writing man pages

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2 total messages Started by Vamsee Lakamsani Tue, 29 Dec 1992 20:48

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Author: Vamsee Lakamsani
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 20:48

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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 ?

Vamsee

Re: writing man pages

#69

Author: Stephen M. Wynne
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 08:56

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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.

Thanks,

STEVE

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