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- From: clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis)
- Newsgroups: comp.text
- Subject: Re: man page standards
- Message-ID: <3752@ecicrl.ocunix.on.ca>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 04:01:25 GMT
- References: <2879@iris.mincom.oz.au>
- Organization: Elegant Communications Inc., Ottawa, Canada
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- In article <2879@iris.mincom.oz.au> markm@iris.mincom.oz.au (Mark McCafferty) writes:
- >Are there any generic standards for the preparation of man pages?
- >We are using HP/UX nroff, using the 'an' macros.
-
- "man" macros. (-man, -mm, -ms are man, mm, ms macros)
-
- >BTW are there any explanations of the 'an' macros?
-
- man 5 man
-
- (I think it's section 5).
-
- Nils is right, there are different "standards", but they haven't diverged
- *that* much, and something built for HP's man macros should work just
- about anywhere (except possibly V6 ;-).
-
- Taking an existing man page and gutting it is how most people start
- out writing them.
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