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- From: imtst@teaser.lis.pitt.edu (I-Ming Tsai)
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- Subject: Re: man pages
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- Date: 17 Dec 92 05:56:10 GMT
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- Ok, now I have a question. I got some source code from ftp, and it has the
- man page, say, msgs.1 like the one shown below, what macro it used, and how
- do I install it and make it available by "man msgs" ?
-
- Thank you very much!
-
- -- Ming
- -------------------------------- msgs.1 ----------------------------------
- .\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1990 The Regents of the University of California.
- .\" All rights reserved.
- .\"
- .\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
- .\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
- .\"
- ..... stuff deleted .....
-
- .Dd July 30, 1991
- .Dt MSGS 1
- .Os BSD 4
- .Sh NAME
- .Nm msgs
- .Nd system messages and junk mail program
- .Sh SYNOPSIS
- .Nm msgs
- .Op Fl fhlpq
- .Op Ar number
- .Op Ar \-number
- .Nm msgs
- .Op Fl s
- .Nm msgs
- .Op Fl c
- .Op \-days
- .Sh DESCRIPTION
- .Nm Msgs
- is used to read system messages.
- These messages are
- sent by mailing to the login `msgs' and should be short
- pieces of information which are suitable to be read once by most users
- of the system.
- .Pp
- .Nm Msgs
- is normally invoked each time you login, by placing it in the file
-
- ...... delete to the end ......
-
-
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