How to format man pages??

Mark Callow msc at ramoth.esd.sgi.com
Tue Feb 12 06:55:01 AEST 1991


In article <907 at ki.UUCP>, dwatts at ki.UUCP (Dan Watts) writes:
|> I've got a problem.  I purchased the Documentors Workbench software from
|> SGI so I could format man pages.  I put an unformatted man page into
|> /usr/catman/local/man1/ and entered "man name" and it just did a plain
|> cat of the unformatted file.  If I manually do an "nroff -man name" the

It works for me.  I have several unformatted man pages in
/usr/catman/local/man1. I have no idea why it isn't working for you.
(I'm running IRIX 3.3.2)

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