Subject: Re: what man(1) reads
To: James K. Lowden <jklowden@schemamania.org>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 06/16/2002 23:00:15
"James K. Lowden" <jklowden@schemamania.org> writes:
> Problem is, unless I'm blind, is that I've got mdoc(7) and man(7), but
> precious little on troff, whose page says, "Only the features not in Unix
> troff are described here", and of course /usr/share/doc/usd/21.troff/ is
> empty.  I also didn't find any troff docs at the Unix Historical Society. 

There are, in fact, troff docs in the v7, 32v and 4.4
documentation. (We hope to have them in the mainline within a few
months.) Just poke around a bit more.

However, if you're writing new man pages, the mdoc.samples and mdoc
man pages are probably preferable to using the gadget you have.

Perry