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TGWDNGHN

11-24-2005 11:12 AM

Man Page "Standards" or Writing Guides?

Hello

When I start writing my first man pages, I would like them to be very consistant in writing style and layout as other existing man pages

Does anyone know of any (Unwritten) "Standards" or a man-page writing guide I could use? Thanks

Ygrex

11-24-2005 11:23 AM

You could see any ready manpage. E.g. man(1) has all standard sections and a
fine formatting.

primo

11-24-2005 01:24 PM

FreeBSD has a nice man that's I checked it's portable. I started the same way as the 2nd post and there's this "reference" that you may see in the web:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?q...SE&format=html

bulliver

11-25-2005 08:54 PM

When I created my manpage, I just took an existing one, and edited it.

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