For the questions list archives:
I wrote an How To Creating a manpage from scratch.
You can read it here.
http://www.daemonforums.org/showthread.php?t=4602
Thanks to all the people who replied to my post.
Joe
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On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 16:49:04 +0800, Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote:
For the questions list archives:
I wrote an How To Creating a manpage from scratch.
You can read it here.
http://www.daemonforums.org/showthread.php?t=4602
Thanks to all the people who replied to my post.
Nice post.
Matthew Seaman wrote:
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On 31/03/2010 08:54:25, Fbsd1 wrote:
OK i want to write a man page from scratch. So lets say i want to use
/usr/share/man/man2/jail.2.gz as my starting sample. How do I convert
this .gz file to a plain text file so I can edit
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On 01/04/2010 09:41:59, Fbsd1 wrote:
Getting closer but not there yet. Selected man jail to be my example of
macro commands used. Did [gunzip jail.8.gz] and now I have jail.8 file.
How to I convert this file to native macro file that I can edit
Matthew Seaman wrote:
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On 01/04/2010 09:41:59, Fbsd1 wrote:
Getting closer but not there yet. Selected man jail to be my example of
macro commands used. Did [gunzip jail.8.gz] and now I have jail.8 file.
How to I convert this file to native macro
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On 01/04/2010 10:29:48, Fbsd1 wrote:
Yep that is the problem. I have no source. I did minimum install.
Is there any way to convert the preprocessed version in
/usr/share/man/*cat8*/jail.8.gz to native macro file.
Download mdoc sources from here:
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On 31/03/2010 04:00:15, Fbsd1 wrote:
Where can I find documentation on the procedure to create man pages
for a port?
If you want to write a man page from scratch, probably the best way to
get started is to just copy a man page from the base system
On 31/03/2010 04:00:15, Fbsd1 wrote:
Where can I find documentation on the procedure to create man pages
for a port?
If you want to write a man page from scratch, probably the best way to
get started is to just copy a man page from the base system and edit it
to taste. See groff(1) for
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On 31/03/2010 08:54:25, Fbsd1 wrote:
OK i want to write a man page from scratch. So lets say i want to use
/usr/share/man/man2/jail.2.gz as my starting sample. How do I convert
this .gz file to a plain text file so I can edit it with ee?
% cp
On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 15:54:25 +0800, Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com
articulated:
On 31/03/2010 04:00:15, Fbsd1 wrote:
Where can I find documentation on the procedure to create man
pages for a port?
If you want to write a man page from scratch, probably the best way
to get started is to
Matthew == Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk writes:
Matthew groff+mdoc might be a markup language, but it's nothing at all
Matthew like HTML.
No, it's not. It's actually turing-complete. I did towers of hanoi
in troff at one point. Can't do that with HTML. :)
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On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 15:54:25 +0800, Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote:
OK i want to write a man page from scratch. So lets say i want to use
/usr/share/man/man2/jail.2.gz as my starting sample. How do I convert
this .gz file to a plain text file so I can edit it with ee? And how do
I turn the
Where can I find documentation on the procedure to create man pages
for a port?
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