How to make "man" pages

Randal L. Schwartz merlyn at stonehenge.com
Wed Mar 31 13:30:43 UTC 2010


>>>>> "Matthew" == Matthew Seaman <m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk> writes:

Matthew>   groff+mdoc might be a markup language, but it's nothing at all
Matthew> like HTML.

No, it's not.  It's actually turing-complete.  I did "towers of hanoi"
in troff at one point. Can't do that with HTML. :)

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