Jess wrote:
how does one go about making a man page?
Get a book that teaches nroff. What I use is a really OLD book, “The
Unix Programming Environment” by Brian W. Kernighan and Rob Pike (ISBN
971-17-9003-3) which was current about 1984 (!). I bought that at a
book sale for the equivalent of US$ 0.50. It’s surprising to see just
how much of that book is still relevant for Linux and other modern
Unices! The book is also my primary reference for shell programming,
awk, and other Unix tricks. The groff info docs ought to describe man
page creation too, but I can’t say for sure. Best bet would be to just
try reverse-engineering the man pages by reading them yourself in a
plain text viewer (make sure to look at the /usr/man/man[0-9] pages, and
not the cat pages).–
| Rafael R. Sevilla @Rafael_R_Sevilla |
| Instrumentation, Robotics, and Control Laboratory |
| College of Engineering, University of the Philippines, Diliman |
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