Re: File System mounting prob

David Adam <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.newbies
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> On Thursday 13 January 2005 02:02, David Adam wrote:
> > unfortunately, they're written in a weird looking language.
> > They're understandable, but only just.
>
> That weird language is something that the man command can deal with. If you
> look at the other man pages on your system they are the same.
>
> zmore /usr/share/man/man1/man.1.gz

Wow. Now *that* is a useful command. Why doesn't the docproj pages mention
that?

> I found this out when I wanted to write a man page for a project of mine, and
> I thought it might be in a language like HTML. No such luck. It appears it
> has references to macros or something. (I gave up on writing the man page in
> man language and used a text editor)

It's called nroff from memory... very oldskool UNIX.

Cheers,

David Adam
[email protected]

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