How to create a manual page in FreeBSD

[David Kelly]

On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 07:35:38PM +0000, SPYRIDON PAPADOPOULOS wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Can anyone describe/give info, of how one can create a manual page for
> a custom program in FreeBSD. A manual page that would be accessible
> through the #man command. Is it possible?

Study troff and write your man page with any old text editor. Suggest
you place it in /usr/local/man/ the same as many others.

Easier than learning troff from the beginning would be to take an
existing man page and make a copy of it. Edit the copy. Proofread every
little change. Suggest /usr/share/man1/man.1.gz would be a good man page
to use as your template.

Gzipping man pages is optional.

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David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly at HiWAAY.net
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