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- Impressario Product Manual Page Templates
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- This directory contains templates for manual pages. It is recommended that an
- Impressario support product contain at least a manual page describing the
- product. This manual page is typically given the name of the product.
- Additional manual pages may also be distributed. These additional manual
- pages can describe any driver or filter programs provided by the product.
- Edit the templates as appropriate for your product.
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- Manual pages are created using the UNIX text formatting language of the
- nroff(1) program. The nroff program is part of the Documenter's Workbench
- product. This product is an option product sold separately. Refer to the
- documentation provided with the Documenter's Workbench product for a
- complete description of the nroff formatting language. The templates provided
- here should allow a manual page to be created with a minimal understanding
- of the formatting language. Note that you must have the Documenter's
- Workbench program installed on the development system in order to create a
- man page for your product.
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- Source manual pages are given the suffix of the UNIX manual section they
- represent. For an Impressario printing support product this will typically
- be section 1 so the suffix to manual page source files will be '.1'. For
- distribution a source manual page is formatted using the nroff program and
- compressed. The resulting "compiled" manual page will have the suffix '.z'.
- It is this '.z' file that is distributed with the product. The source manual
- page is not distributed. To create the "compiled" manual pages use the
- Makefile in this directory. Type 'make' to compile the source manual pages
- and type 'make clean' to remove any compiled manual pages. Compiled manual
- pages can be read in the directory in which they are created by using the
- command 'man -d <manpage>.z'. Note that all manual pages must be named
- with lowercase letters.
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- Typically, all Impressario manual pages (section 1 pages) should be installed
- in the directory /usr/share/catman/u_man/cat1.
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- This directory contains the following manual page source files:
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- product_template.1
- This manual page serves as a template for an Impressario support
- product manual page. Edit this manual page to describe your product.
- The inclusion of a product manual page with your Impressario support
- product is highly recommended.
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- program_template.1
- This manual page is a template for a specific program within an
- Impressario support product. Typical programs are drivers and
- filters. Inclusion of program manual pages with your Impressario
- support product is optional.
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