Converting Sixth Edition man pages

Converting Sixth Edition man pages

[Greg Lehey]

I have the Sixth Edition man pages on my machine, but I can't do much
with them, since they use obsolete macros.  Is there any way to
convert them to the Seventh Edition style?

Greg
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In article by Greg Lehey:
> I have the Sixth Edition man pages on my machine, but I can't do much
> with them, since they use obsolete macros.  Is there any way to
> convert them to the Seventh Edition style?
> 
> Greg

My off-the-cuff suggestion is to read the man(7) pages for both V6 and V7,
and write a Perl script to make the changes :-) That's probably the `best'
solution, but would take time.

Do you want to preserve the markup, or just want to view the manpages?
Just viewing them would be easier, of course!

Ciao,
	Warren


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From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
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Subject: Re: Converting Sixth Edition man pages
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On Tuesday, 29 December 1998 at 19:14:38 +1100, Warren Toomey wrote:
> In article by Greg Lehey:
>> I have the Sixth Edition man pages on my machine, but I can't do much
>> with them, since they use obsolete macros.  Is there any way to
>> convert them to the Seventh Edition style?
>
> My off-the-cuff suggestion is to read the man(7) pages for both V6 and V7,
> and write a Perl script to make the changes :-) That's probably the `best'
> solution, but would take time.

perl?  What's perl?  :-)  But yes, that was one alternative, one I
hadn't thought worth the trouble.

> Do you want to preserve the markup, or just want to view the manpages?
> Just viewing them would be easier, of course!

In fact, I'm not sure that just viewing them *would* be easier.  From
observation, the markup isn't too different from the -an macros.  A
lot of the macros seem to be the same, just in a different case.  But
there are enough differences that I wouldn't want to tackle it right
now.

Greg
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