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Writing man Pages Using groff

Issue 18

From Issue #18
October 1995

Oct 01, 1995  By Matt Welsh
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groff is the GNU version of the popular nroff/troff text-formatting tools provided on most Unix systems. Its most common use is writing manual pages—online documentation for commands, programming interfaqces, and so forth. In this article, we show you the ropes of writing your own man pages with groff.
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Wonderful article

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Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 08/10/2010 - 00:51.

Wonderful article

Thanks

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Submitted by Mike Strom (not verified) on Tue, 07/21/2009 - 14:54.

Thanks for a nice tutorial, just finished my first man page :)

Noticed that in the listing all backslashes (i.e. \fB) shows up like forward slashed (/fB). Maybe it's my browser?

Thanks,
Mike

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