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Re: Man page writing aid?

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From: E.w.a. van Leeuwen
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 1992 11:05
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lwv26@cas.org (Larry W. Virden) writes:

>Did anyone ever consider writing a man page form type program?  That is,
>the program would use curses, bring up a 'form' asking for title of man
>page, author, usage, etc.  perhaps do some edit checking, generate a
>man page, AND, if the user specifies that name when invoking the form,
>reads in the man page, fills in the fields, and allows the user to edit
>it?

I know of a filter programme "mif2man" which takes FrameMaker's MIF
and (should) output a man page. I write 'should', because I 
found out today that it crashes with a "Bus error".



						Regards,
						
						Ed.

						
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