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Subject:Re: man pages From:"Wilcox, John (WWC, Contractor)" <wilcoxj -at- WDNI -dot- COM> Date:Sat, 24 Jan 1998 18:32:00 -0800
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From: kevinh -at- DEV -dot- TIVOLI -dot- COM
OK, now I'm confused. None of the replies to John Posada's original
question I've seen so far have mentioned troff, nroff, or any of its
variants.
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Yes, well, I was going to get to that, but I wanted John P. to find the
threads in the archive. I just looked there, and the message I
mentioned writing wasn't there. (Probably I just wrote it in my
imagination.) Anyway, yes, I always used nroff, and yes, I'd recommend
taking a look at some existing man pages and going from there. John P.,
by looking at the contents of a man page file and then at the resulting
display, I'm sure you can figure out how it works.
Btw, a particularly helpful message in the archives is from Sally
Derrick, right there at Tivoli.
Regards,
John Wilcox, Documentation Specialist
Timberlands Information Services, Application Delivery Group
Weyerhaeuser, WWC 2E2, Box 2999
Tacoma, WA 98477-2999 USA
253-924-7972 mailto:wilcoxj -at- wdni -dot- com
(I don't speak for Weyerhaeuser, and they return the favor.)
