Re: making man-pages

[Todd Gruhn <tgruhn2%gmail.com@localhost>]

Did I say that write?


I write FOO -- make manpage 'FOO.? '

SOOO, manpage is FOO.3?
Where do I put this?

On Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 6:40 PM Jeremy C. Reed <reed%reedmedia.net@localhost> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 19 Apr 2023, Todd Gruhn wrote:
>
> > If I write a program, and a man-page with it; where do I install this
> > man-page ??
>
> See the manpath on your NetBSD system:
> man -p
>
> That shows what directories actually currently has manuals.
> So also see:
> /etc/man.conf
>
> A common place to install your own manpage is
> /usr/local/man/man1/
>
> The man manpage or man itself has a bug:
> the man.c comments say -p prints the directories containing manpages.
> The manpage says -p prints the path.
>
> But actually -p prints the directories from the search path that exist
> regardless if contain manpages or not.
>
> Okay if I commit this?
>
>  .It Fl p
>  Print the search path for the manual pages.
> +This excludes cat page directories and non-existent directories.
>
> Fix man.c comments too?
> Or should the code be fixed to only -p print directories containing
> a man page?