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Re: diff? and Addinf Man pages:
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Otto Hammersmith)
Wed Oct 23 11:54:28 1996
From: Otto Hammersmith <ohammers@cu-online.com>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 10:31:32 -0500 (CDT)
In-Reply-To: <9610231136.AA26130@stereotaxis.wustl.edu> from "Michael J. Yanowitz" at Oct 23, 96 06:36:34 am
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Michael J. Yanowitz wrote:
>
> Thanks, but here are further questions:
>
> Here (below) is the man page for diff (for Solaris 2.4).
>
> a) Can I assume it is the same syntax under Linux?
Unlikely... if you're lucky the simple options are the same.
> b) How do I add a new man page?
Learn [gtn]roff. Should be a manpage for groff... GNU did include one
for this, right? It'd be kinda silly not to. :)
Then take the output of 'diff --help' and groffify it.
You're better off learning how to use info, now. Type 'info' from a
command prompt or 'C-h i' inside emacs. Then just read the
directions... it should take you through a tutorial.
Slightly off topic.. does anyone at Red Hat have plans to straighten
out the info files. They're pretty much a mess right now. :-/ At
least an updated /usr/info/dir file that includes all the info files
that ship on the CD. Also wouldn't be a bad idea to add a tree for
the HOWTOs. If that's not gonna happen soo, I may take up that
myself... but I won't take the responsiblity of maintaining it. ;)
--
-Otto
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