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- From: stevemw@wvirginia.wv.tek.com (Stephen M. Wynne)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.admin
- Subject: Re: writing man pages
- Message-ID: <STEVEMW.92Dec30005611@wvirginia.wv.tek.com>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 08:56:11 GMT
- References: <1hqdjfINNrlh@tamsun.tamu.edu>
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- In-reply-to: vamsee@abgen.tamu.edu's message of 29 Dec 92 20:48:47 GMT
-
- 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
-