Hi Bernd, I'm not sure there's enough here to justify a new man page. It would probably end up having to state all the oddities and exceptions.
> These extensions are fixed in all Unix-like operating systems. I don't think they're are fixed in that many things don't care what extension is used. > Each roff file can be optionally compressed. I don't think groff handles compressed files? If something like man(1) does and decompresses them before groff see them then it isn't a groff thing. > The traditional "<section>" is a digit from 1 to 8. Covered by man-pages(7). > There are 2 styles for writing man pages: "man" and "mdoc". These 2 > extensions are used in the source code package of groff. > > <name>.man traditional man-page format > <name>.mdoc additional man-page format > <name>.mandoc recognizing both man-page formats That they're used in the source of groff isn't sufficient to document them? Cheers, Ralph.
