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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: Kim Buckner <buckner@cs.utk.edu>
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Subject: Re: Man Pages 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 09 Dec 1999 09:34:35 EST."
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On Thu, 09 Dec 1999 09:34:35 EST, Kim Buckner wrote:

> I obviously missed something.  I am trying to format the man pages from
> the 3.3 release and
> I don't know what macro package was used.

Different manpages use different packages.  You mentioned nroff.  If
that's what you're using, I have yet to find a page that couldn't be
formatted with one of ``nroff -mdoc'' and ``nroff -man''.

The decision can be automated with some shell scripting (although this
is sluggish):

	page=/path/to/foo.1
	if grep -Lq '^\.Nm' ${page}; then
		nroff -mdoc ${page}
	else
		nroff -man ${page}
	fi

That should get you going, depending on what you're actually trying to
do. :-)

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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