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Article #165Re: Man page writing aid?
From: E.w.a. van Leeuwen
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 1992 11:05
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. =============================================================================== Ed van Leeuwen | Ed W.A. van Leeuwen FEL-TNO | TNO Physics and Electronics Laboratory 's-Gravenhage | The Hague, the Netherlands ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ed.van.Leeuwen@tnofel.fel.tno.nl | WARNING: Do not feed the lions ===============================================================================
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Newsgroups: comp.text Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!sun4nl!tnofel!felfs!leeh7 From: leeh7@fel.tno.nl (E.w.a. van Leeuwen) Subject: Re: Man page writing aid? Organization: TNO Physics and Electronics Laboratory Date: Mon, 3 Aug 92 11:05:53 GMT Message-ID: <1992Aug3.110553.1058@fel.tno.nl> References: <1992Aug1.105827.11321@cas.org> Lines: 28