From: mdruiter AT cs DOT vu DOT nl
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: man page style guide
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 13:08:03 GMT
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Jeff Williams <jeffw AT darwin DOT sfbr DOT org> wrote:
> I would like to document, using the man-page format, some utility and
...
> I can glean the general man-page format by studying my Solaris man pages,
> but does anyone know if there exists an official (FSF, GNU, POSIX...?)
> `style-guide' for writing man pages?

You do know that man-pages are generated by a program named `nroff'
(or in the GNU case, `gnroff'), don't you? If not, you might want to
download djgpp/v2gnu/groff*b.zip from where you found DJGPP.

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