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From:Vanessa Wilburn <vlwilburn -at- CPU -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 26 Jan 1998 10:15:03 -0600
Carl,
Do you have any books or other reference material that describe all the
basic tags? Currently we are using existing man pages to figure out the
tags. We also use some of the man pages on nroff for basic info, but we are
looking for a better reference.
Thanks,
Vanessa Wilburn
vanessa -dot- wilburn -at- cpu -dot- com
>From: "Bergerson, Carl A" <Carl -dot- Bergerson -at- UNISYS -dot- COM>
>Subject: Re: Man Pages
>
>John,
>
>I still owe you the Word 1 styles. I have to go through the archives at
>home to get them.
>
>But let me try to explain how manual pages work on most Unix systems.
>
>When the Unix system is first installed, most if not all, the man
>pages are stored in nroff/troff source files.
-- SNIP --
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