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From: msc@ramoth.esd.sgi.com (Mark Callow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: How to format man pages??
Message-ID: <1991Feb11.195501.11064@odin.corp.sgi.com>
Date: 11 Feb 91 19:55:01 GMT
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In article <907@ki.UUCP>, dwatts@ki.UUCP (Dan Watts) writes:
|> I've got a problem.  I purchased the Documentors Workbench software from
|> SGI so I could format man pages.  I put an unformatted man page into
|> /usr/catman/local/man1/ and entered "man name" and it just did a plain
|> cat of the unformatted file.  If I manually do an "nroff -man name" the

It works for me.  I have several unformatted man pages in
/usr/catman/local/man1. I have no idea why it isn't working for you.
(I'm running IRIX 3.3.2)

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