Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 16:21:39 +0000 From: Dominic Mitchell <dom@semantico.com> To: "Justin W. Pauler" <jwpauler@jwpages.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mdoc Message-ID: <20010116162139.A28585@semantico.com> In-Reply-To: <01011609563201.98287@wks01.drnet.fais.net> References: <01011609563201.98287@wks01.drnet.fais.net>
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On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 09:56:32AM -0600, Justin W. Pauler wrote: > I've noticed alot of committs over the last hours of mdoc stuff, like man -> > mdoc and such. Can someone explain what mdoc is and what is happening to the > man pages? I don't know what changes are being made, but mdoc is a BSD enhanced version of the traditional troff -man macro set. It's basically a lot more flexible with regards to output. It's also slower, but that's of little consequence these days. For more details see mdoc(7) or mdoc.samples(7). -Dom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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