jim@baroque.Stanford.EDU (James Helman) (04/26/91)
Archive-name: text/troff/awf-sgi/1991-04-24
Archive: fresnel.stanford.edu:pub/4DX/awf-sgi.tar.Z [36.10.0.77]
Original-posting-by: jim@baroque.Stanford.EDU (James Helman)
Original-subject: Re: formatting man pages without DWB (FAQ)
Reposted-by: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN)
So, my question is, given access to Suns & DECstations it possible
to produce irix man pages w/o spending $300 on DWB?
Use: nroff -man
This is a cleaver option. The option is -m with an argument 'an'.
At least as of 3.3.1, no DWB means no nroff. So this won't get you
very far. There is an awk-based formatter called AWF (A workable
formatter) written by Henry Spencer. A version for IRIX including a
fake nroff/tbl/eqn script is available by anonymous ftp to
fresnel.stanford.edu. Look for pub/4D/awf-sgi.tar.Z
-jim
Jim Helman
Department of Applied Physics Durand 012
Stanford University FAX: (415) 725-3377
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