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From: Heiko Dudzus <heiko.dudzus@gmx.de>
To: Vester Thacker <vester.thacker@gmail.com>,
	Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Updating man pages and other documents.
Date: Thu,  9 Dec 2004 11:37:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041209103730.GA11609@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <32a656c204120902161fc19bd2@mail.gmail.com>

Vester Thacker wrote:
> I am writing this concerning updating the manual pages and other documents.
> To whom should we send the updates to? And which document format is preferred? 

If you made changes to your local system, you can use the patch(1) tools to
put them onto sources.

Document format for man pages is man macros for troff/nroff. It is
decribed in man(6).


  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-12-09 10:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-09 10:16 Vester Thacker
2004-12-09 10:28 ` Charles Forsyth
2004-12-09 10:37 ` Heiko Dudzus [this message]
2004-12-09 10:36   ` Charles Forsyth
2004-12-09 11:40     ` Vester Thacker

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