Manpage if no amanpage availabel
Hi All,
I received a few suggestions about the manpage which can be linked to
if no manpage is available from Kai Henningsen, Ian Jackson, David H.
Silber, Carl Streeter. Thanks. I did a few modifications and renamed
the manpage a little because I had the fealing that the previous name
was a little far-fetched because acronymous. I hope everybody can live
with the name `noman'. I don't know in which section this manpage
should go: I choose section 5 but 7 might be a good choice too.
from man:
5 File formats and conventions eg /etc/passwd
7 Macro packages and conventions eg man(7), groff(7).
I suggest putting this manpage in the manpages package, but perhaps it
is better to include it in dpkg or base. Opinions?
Erick
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noman(5) Debian GNU/Linux noman(5)
NAME
noman - No manpage for this program, utility or function.
DESCRIPTION
This program, utility or function does not have a useful
manpage. Please do not report this as a bug, because this
has already been reported as a bug; when a manpage becomes
available it will be included, and the bug report closed
<http://www.debian.org/Bugs/>. If you are a competent and
accurate writer and are willing to spend the time reading
the source code and writing good manpages please write a
better man page than this one. Please contact the package
maintainer in order to avoid several people working on the
same manpage.
Try the following options if you want more information.
noman replaced by the real name of the program, utility or
function you need information on:
noman --help|-h|-?
info noman
whatis|apropos noman
check directory's /usr/doc/noman,
/usr/doc/examples/noman, /usr/lib/noman
dpkg --listfiles|--search noman
find / -name '*noman*'
If you still didn't find the information you are looking
for you might consider posting a call for help to debian-
user@pixar.com.
SEE ALSO
info(1), whatis(1), apropos(1), dpkg(8), find(1).
AUTHOR
Erick Branderhorst <branderhorst@heel.fgg.eur.nl>.
THANKS
Kai Henningsen <kai@khms.westfalen.de>, Ian Jackson
<ijackson@gnu.ai.mit.edu>, David H. Silber
<dhs@firefly.com>, Carl Streeter <streeter@cae.wisc.edu>.
COPYRIGHT
This manpage is free software; see the GNU General Public
Licence version 2 or later for copying conditions.
Debian Project 5th February 1996 1
=================================================================
.\" Hey, Emacs! This is an -*- nroff -*- source file.
.TH noman 5 "5th February 1996" "Debian Project" "Debian GNU/Linux"
.SH NAME
noman \- No manpage for this program, utility or function.
.SH DESCRIPTION
This
.B program, utility
or
.B function
does not have a useful manpage. Please do
.B not
report this as a bug, because this has already been reported as a bug;
when a manpage becomes available it will be included, and the bug
report closed <\c
.B http://www.debian.org/Bugs/\c
>. If you are a competent and accurate writer and are willing to spend
the time reading the source code and writing good manpages please
write a better man page than this one. Please
.B contact
the
.B package maintainer
in order to avoid several people working on the same manpage.
Try the following options if you want more information.
.B noman
replaced by the real name of the program, utility or function you need
information on:
noman \-\-help|\-h|-?
.TP
info noman
.TP
whatis|apropos noman
.TP
check directory's /usr/doc/noman, /usr/doc/examples/noman, /usr/lib/noman
.TP
dpkg \-\-listfiles|\-\-search noman
.TP
find / \-name '*noman*'
.PP
If you still didn't find the information you are looking for you might
consider posting a call for help to debian-user@pixar.com.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR info (1),
.BR whatis (1),
.BR apropos (1),
.BR dpkg (8),
.BR find (1).
.SH AUTHOR
Erick Branderhorst <branderhorst@heel.fgg.eur.nl>.
.SH THANKS
Kai Henningsen <kai@khms.westfalen.de>,
Ian Jackson <ijackson@gnu.ai.mit.edu>,
David H. Silber <dhs@firefly.com>,
Carl Streeter <streeter@cae.wisc.edu>.
.SH COPYRIGHT
This manpage is free software; see the GNU General Public Licence
version 2 or later for copying conditions.
--
Erick Branderhorst@heel.fgg.eur.nl +31-10-4635142
Department of General Surgery (Intensive Care) University Hospital Rotterdam NL
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