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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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Old 12-21-2008
Well, you should put your utility somewhere like /usr/local/bin and then put your man page somewhere in /usr/local/man. Then if you set the MANPATH variable to include /usr/local/man it should work. Find some man page you like and copy its source code to your man page and then just edit the text to describe your utility.
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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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