Re: [Bashburn-info] Man page

[Steven W. O. <st...@sy...>]

On Monday, Sep 29th 2008 at 13:22 -0000, quoth Nick Warne:

=>
=>I have been messing with a man page today - I really just gleaned the
=>existing docs, but I think it looks OK.
=>
=>I have attached the file - save it, then just run 'man <path_to_file>'.
=>
=>If y'all think it's OK, I will add to repository and Install scripts.
=>
=>I looked at 'man man' and presume it belongs in man(7).  It not, please
=>correct me, and I will fix up.

No, it should go into section 1.
Section 1. User commands
Section 2. System calls
Section 3. Runtime library calls.
Section 4. Special files
Section 5. File formats
Section 6. Games.
Section 7. Misc
Section 8. Admin and priviledged stuff.

There's no requirement (any more) for bb to be installed by root and you 
don't have to be root to run it. It should go in section 1.


:-) man man gave you a description of the 'an' macro set used to produce 
man pages. You do that by using the -m option to specify the macro package 
you want. In this case the package is called 'an' so that people would run 
groff -man for the purpose of confusing them.

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