FreeBSD for the common man(or woman) (was: > upgrade 7.2

[Karl Vogel]

>> On Sun, 9 Aug 2009 07:52:31 -0600, 
>> Chad Perrin <perrin at apotheon.com> said:

C> An info page is almost as bad as nothing, as far as I'm concerned.

   Yup.  However, the GNU folks do provide something for the rest of us;
   help2man accepts a GNU program name, runs it with the --help and
   --version arguments, and writes a pretty good manpage.

     me% wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/help2man/help2man-1.36.4.tar.gz
     me% tar xzfv help2man-1.36.4.tar.gz
     me% cd help2man-1.36.4
     me% ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --mandir=/usr/local/man
     root# make install
     me% make distclean

   If you have GNU tar installed:

     root# help2man /usr/local/bin/gtar > /usr/local/man/man1/gtar.1
 
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