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Subject: Re: Um... what format are Cygwin manpages?
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On 8/9/06, mwoehlke wrote:
> I thought I'd have a crack at fixing the manpage for printf(3) (see
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-08/msg00288.html), but when I opened
> it, I was a bit shocked to discover that it is only *MARGINALLY* in
> troff format. I do note that other manpages seem more "normal" (man1
> pages, for instance)... So, is this just "how the C lib manpages are"?

Yes, it's sort-of my fault. I just have a perl script that chunks the newlib
libc.info files into faux man pages. Be careful with Linux man pages,
some are licenced from the Open Group. If so the package should
come with a copyright file like this:

http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/non-free/m/manpages-posix/manpages-posix_1.67-3/manpages-posix.copyright

Unfortunately we are not allowed to redistribute those, unless you'd like
to do the legwork to get permission to do so. :)

Also I just posted for upload a new cygwin-doc package before I read
this thread, so there would be more of a delay.

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