In the groff_man manual page it says: .TH title section [extra1] [extra2] [extra3]
which displays as: ------------------------------------------------------ title(section) extra3 title(section) extra2 extra1 page # ------------------------------------------------------ I've found no conditions for the extra fields, so I took some examples from different popular packages: .TH A2P 1 "perl v5.6.0" "1999-07-20" "Perl Programmers Reference Guide" .TH ar 1 "1999" "Cygnus Solutions" "GNU Development Tools" .TH CAT "1" "August 1999" "GNU textutils 2.0" FSF .TH CHOWN "1" "January 2000" "GNU fileutils 4.0p" FSF .TH DUMPKEYS 1 "09 Oct 1997" "Console tools" "Linux User's Manual" .TH EQN 1 "30 April 2000" "Groff Version 1.16.1" .TH GIMP 1 "23 June 2000" "Version 1.1.25" "GIMP Manual Pages" So: Field #1: Program name (uppercase) ---> MC Field #2: Section. Has always been 1 for mc ----> 1 Field #3: Date. Different formats. I like the one used by GNU. Eduardo told me to use an ISO format, but little pages use it. --------> January 2003 Field #4: Random. Package and version ----> MC Version 4.6.0 Field #5: Most time it's not used. It's like the book title or company name. I proposed "GNU Midnight Commander". Would anyone vote for "FSF" or "GNU Manual Pages" ? If you want more examples you can grep (bzgrep) your man directories. That makes: .TH MC 1 "January 2003" "MC Version 4.6.0" "GNU Midnight Commander" In short (tomorrow?) I will set all help sources in CVS so that translators may suit them to their languages. *8-) David _______________________________________________ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web! _______________________________________________ Mc-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel