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From: davidp@krill.corp.sgi.com (David Pike)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: How to format man pages??
Message-ID: <1991Feb11.212702.12838@odin.corp.sgi.com>
Date: 11 Feb 91 21:27:02 GMT
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In article <1991Feb11.195501.11064@odin.corp.sgi.com>,
msc@ramoth.esd.sgi.com (Mark Callow) writes:
|> 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)
|> 

   Let's say you have an unformatted man page foo.1.  When you type
man
foo, it lists the man page unformatted.  When you type nroff -man
foo.1, it
properly formats the page.  What you need to do, is something to the
likes of nroff -man foo.1 > foo.2.   The foo.2 file will properly
display
in man.  Now you can compress or pack it, if you would like.

David Pike
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