how to install manual pages?

Darrell McCauley mccauley at ecn.purdue.edu
Thu Jan 13 21:22:51 EST 1994


Simon Cox (simon at artemis.earth.monash.edu.au ) writes on 14 Jan 94:
>I am just installing some contributed code from incoming.
>Some shell scripts come with manual pages in troff format.
>What is the best way to install them into the online location?
>(ie $GISBASE/man/3)  Should I just run nroff -man and copy them
>across, or is there a more elegant way?

on pasture.ecn.purdue.edu:pub/mccauley/grass/g.nroff
is a sh script to nroff a man page and write to stdout.
At the bottom of the you'll see a comment about where 
to redirect output.



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