-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 /usr/share/man/man2/jail.2.gz . % gunzip jail.2.gz % mv jail.2 myname.2 % ee myname.2 > And how do > I turn the edited text file back in to a man page .gz file? To compress the groff source: % gzip myname.2 To render the groff source as ascii text (what the man(1) command does): % groff -mdoc -Tascii myname.2 | less or % gzcat myname.2.gz | groff -mdoc -Tascii | less In general though, you should keep the man page source uncompressed while you're working on it and within the port; install it uncompressed and leave it to the ports machinery to compress it after installation. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkuzE+0ACgkQ8Mjk52CukIx6VgCfV9R1LOrqcjzlnwSEMNHAT/Ys iOEAniohL9mC7ehGZXKub+9RHKmI87px =fhC7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"