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Article #1535Re: man page standards
From: Nils-Peter Nelson
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 20:46
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 20:46
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When Unix System Labs dropped troff, etc as a standard part of System V, the vendors all went in different directions. USL now sells troff separately as part of Documenter's Workbench, and the latest releases (3.2 and 3.3) contain a "merged man" macro that includes definitions used by BSD, Sun, Research and System V. There is no longer a single standard. What most people do is swipe an existing man page for something else and modify everything except the headers.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!att!allegra!alice!npn From: npn@alice.att.com (Nils-Peter Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: man page standards Summary: Standards are regrettably vendor dependent Message-ID: <23549@alice.att.com> Date: 25 Aug 92 20:46:35 GMT Article-I.D.: alice.23549 References: <2879@iris.mincom.oz.au> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill NJ Lines: 11