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Operating Systems Solaris Creating a Man page for a command Post 302269603 by raghu.amilineni on Thursday 18th of December 2008 06:12:22 AM
Old 12-18-2008
Java Creating a Man page for a command

Hi,

I would like to develop a man page as the one we usually get when we execute man <command name>. This man page will be for a samll utility that i have written.

If this is not possible then what are the available possibilites for creating such help.

thanks in advance.
raghu.amilineni
 

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fvwm-perllib(1) 						  Fvwm Utilities						   fvwm-perllib(1)

NAME
fvwm-perllib - shows the documentation of the Fvwm Perl library SYNOPSIS
fvwm-perllib [ --help|-h|-? ] [ --version|-v|-V ] [ man [ Perl::Class ] ] [ cat [ Perl::Class ] ] [ raw [ Perl::Class ] ] [ dir ] DESCRIPTION
Starting from fvwm-2.5.x versions there is a built-in support for creating fvwm modules in Perl. This fvwm-perllib utility provides help services for the fvwm Perl library. OPTIONS
--help show the help and exit --version show the version and exit --man or man [ Perl::Class ] show manual page just like man(1) --cat or cat [ Perl::Class ] show manual page in plain text --raw or raw [ Perl::Class ] generate output in man format (not human readable) --dir or dir print perllib directory without a trailing end of line USAGE
Use this in the fvwm modules written in Perl: use lib `fvwm-perllib dir`; Introduction to the Fvwm Perl library: % fvwm-perllib man Manual page for the "FVWM::Module" class: % fvwm-perllib man FVWM::Module Standard options: % fvwm-perllib --help % fvwm-perllib --version AUTHORS
Mikhael Goikhman <migo@homemail.com>. COPYING
The script is distributed by the same terms as fvwm itself. See GNU General Public License for details. BUGS
No known bugs. Report bugs to fvwm-bug@fvwm.org. perl v5.8.0 2003-03-11 fvwm-perllib(1)
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