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Re: Bug#1526: need volunteer for dpkg manpage



Hi,
>>"Richard" == Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl> writes:

Richard> Remco Blaakmeer wrote:
>> However, I am totally new to writing man pages and especially to
>> utilities like troff and groff. Are there HOWTO documents, web
>> pages or other information I should read?

Richard> The man(7) page is pretty good.  I learned it from that and
Richard> from looking at examples; it's not difficult.  You can use
Richard> something like nroff -man filename.8 | less to preview your
Richard> work.

	You can also try man -l filename.8. Less typing.

	manoj

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 Date: 13 Mar 90 20:00:26 GMT From: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal
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