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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: How do I format BSD man pages?
Date: 21 Jan 1996 22:31:23 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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To: sscrivan@nyx10.cs.du.edu (steve scrivano)

sscrivan@nyx10.cs.du.edu (steve scrivano) writes:
> Could somone please tell me how to format BSD man pages as they don't
> seem to conform to Unix "man" commands.  What am I missing here?

{nroff,groff} -mandoc, eventually accompanied by other preprocessor
options.

> Please e-mail me since I don't read this news area.

Please use ``Followup-To: poster'' to express this wish.
-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)