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Operating Systems Solaris Creating a Man page for a command Post 302270379 by drl on Sunday 21st of December 2008 04:02:43 PM
Old 12-21-2008
Hi.

I think I have used txt2man a few times. There are repositories that contain it, but you may be able to get it at the URL below.

There are a number of similar utilities -- depends on how much you want to search, download, install, try, etc ... cheers, drl
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txt2man

Txt2man converts flat ASCII text to man page format. It is a shell script using gnu awk, that should run on any Unix like system. Last version: 1.5.5 (21-mar-2007) ...

http://mvertes.free.fr/
 

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MAN(1)							      General Commands Manual							    MAN(1)

NAME
man, lookman - print or find pages of this manual SYNOPSIS
man [ option ... ] [ section ... ] title ... lookman key ... DESCRIPTION
Man locates and prints pages of this manual named title in the specified sections. Title is given in lower case. Each section is a num- ber; pages marked (2S), for example, belong to chapter 2. If no section is specified, pages in all sections are printed. Any name from the NAME section at the top of the page will serve as a title. The options are: -p Run proof(1) on the specified man pages. -t Run troff and send its output to standard output. -n (Default) Print the pages on the standard output using nroff. Lookman prints the names of all manual sections that contain all of the key words given on the command line. FILES
/sys/man/?/* troff source for manual; this page is /sys/man/1/man /sys/man/?/INDEX indices searched to find pages corresponding to titles /sys/lib/man/secindex command to make an index for a given section /sys/lib/man/lookman/index index for lookman SOURCE
/rc/bin/man /rc/bin/lookman SEE ALSO
proof(1) BUGS
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