Where can I find documentation on the procedure to create "man" pages
for a port?
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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 syst
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 docu
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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
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 jus
> "Matthew" == Matthew Seaman 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 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 edited text file b
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 i
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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 fi
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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:
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 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. This is exactl
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