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- From: nickel@cs.tu-berlin.de (Juergen Nickelsen)
- Subject: Re: *** How to format BDS man pages ???? ***
- In-Reply-To: scott@solids.phy.bnl.gov's message of 11 Sep 92 20:29:30 GMT
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- References: <1992Sep11.202930.4097@bnlux1.bnl.gov>
- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 17:20:29 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep11.202930.4097@bnlux1.bnl.gov>
- scott@solids.phy.bnl.gov (david scott coburn) writes:
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- > I have been trying (unsuccessfully) to format some BSD man pages
- > gotten from the archives on ftp.uu.net. The files in question
- > are for the lpr/lpd stuff. nroff -man does not seem to do the job.
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- The {t,n}roff macros for manual pages in 4.3-reno are significantly
- different from those in 4.3 (and other systems). The only way to
- format them is to get also the -man macros. (I don't now if these are
- available.)
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- Juergen Nickelsen
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