Re: [Bashburn-info] Man page

[Nick W. <ni...@li...>]

On Mon, 29 Sep 2008 13:31:17 -0400 (EDT)
"Steven W. Orr" <st...@sy...> wrote:

> 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.
> 

I have built the man page OK... is anybody getting my attachments?

I will change it to section 1

Nick

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