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Re: man pages
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Justin Bell)
Thu Nov 12 18:17:15 1998
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 18:16:00 -0500
From: Justin Bell <justin@superlibrary.com>
To: Eric Cifreo <Eric@kazan.com>, redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <75A9508F64A2D111B89C00609710A6CF1364DB@adrian>; from Eric Cifreo on Thu, Nov 12, 1998 at 03:23:05PM -0600
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On Thu, Nov 12, 1998 at 03:23:05PM -0600, Eric Cifreo wrote:
# >>-----Original Message-----
# >>From: Vidiot [mailto:brown@ftms.COM]
# >>Sent: Thursday, November 12, 1998 10:25 am
# >>
# >>Can someone please tell me if there is a utility that will strip the
# >>formatting from man pages/files and create a standard text file?
# >
# >Ya, it is called nroff. Groff will work as well.
# >
# >MB
# -----------------------------------
# OK,
# Let me piggyback on this one:
# How do you make a man page from a text file? troff, right.
# Is there a command line flag to do this? Is there a utility
# out there? From the man page, it looks like troff is it's
# own little formatting language...
why, it is
here is a simple man page I wrote for a gag utility
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.TH howami 1
.SH NAME
howami - How are you?
.SH SYNOPSIS
howami
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B howami
is a command that lets you know how you are feeling.
Do not think for a moment that
.B you
can make any decisions on how you feel.
.SH OPTIONS
none
.SH BUGS
Let michael@mcp.com know.
.SH SEE ALSO
whoami(1), whatami(1), ami(8)
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