* [9fans] Updating man pages and other documents.
@ 2004-12-09 10:16 Vester Thacker
2004-12-09 10:28 ` Charles Forsyth
2004-12-09 10:37 ` Heiko Dudzus
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From: Vester Thacker @ 2004-12-09 10:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
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?
-vester
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* Re: [9fans] Updating man pages and other documents.
2004-12-09 10:16 [9fans] Updating man pages and other documents Vester Thacker
@ 2004-12-09 10:28 ` Charles Forsyth
2004-12-09 10:37 ` Heiko Dudzus
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From: Charles Forsyth @ 2004-12-09 10:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: vester.thacker, 9fans
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i use patch(1) to update/add those things too.
manual pages are man(6) troff
documents are typically ms(6) troff
sometimes with eqn, pic, tbl preprocessing
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From: Vester Thacker <vester.thacker@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: [9fans] Updating man pages and other documents.
Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 19:16:40 +0900
Message-ID: <32a656c204120902161fc19bd2@mail.gmail.com>
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?
-vester
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* Re: [9fans] Updating man pages and other documents.
2004-12-09 10:37 ` Heiko Dudzus
@ 2004-12-09 10:36 ` Charles Forsyth
2004-12-09 11:40 ` Vester Thacker
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From: Charles Forsyth @ 2004-12-09 10:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
also see /sys/man/mkfile and /sys/doc/mkfile (and mkfiles in subdirectories).
the latter generates .ps and .pdf files from troff as required.
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* Re: [9fans] Updating man pages and other documents.
2004-12-09 10:16 [9fans] Updating man pages and other documents Vester Thacker
2004-12-09 10:28 ` Charles Forsyth
@ 2004-12-09 10:37 ` Heiko Dudzus
2004-12-09 10:36 ` Charles Forsyth
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From: Heiko Dudzus @ 2004-12-09 10:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Vester Thacker, Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
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).
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* Re: [9fans] Updating man pages and other documents.
2004-12-09 10:36 ` Charles Forsyth
@ 2004-12-09 11:40 ` Vester Thacker
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From: Vester Thacker @ 2004-12-09 11:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 10:36:53 0000, Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net> wrote:
> also see /sys/man/mkfile and /sys/doc/mkfile (and mkfiles in subdirectories).
> the latter generates .ps and .pdf files from troff as required.
Charles and Heiko, thank you for the help.
-vester
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