Mailing List Archive: Man pages on HPUX (and others?)

Man pages on HPUX (and others?)

Jan 7, 2000, 5:21 PM

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HPUX doesn't seem to ship with a set of troff macros that can handle the
OpenSSH manpages. Maybe other OSs have this problem?

Rather than sodding about with the tmac/ directory, I think we should do
one of two things:

1. Ship a set of preformatted manpages, and either auto-install them in
$prefix/man/cat{1,1m} or just have instructions in INSTALL to do so
2. Recommend users install groff ;-)

Neither is great, but as things stand right now HP users get garbage for
manpages. It's not too much effort to provide them with pages
preprocessed by a decent troff implementation, so I think we should do
so. Opinions?

-Andre
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Re: Man pages on HPUX (and others?) [ In reply to ]

gem at rellim

Jan 7, 2000, 5:31 PM

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Yo Andre!

Now that you mention it, the man pages are boken on SCO too...

On Sat, 8 Jan 2000, Andre Lucas wrote:

> HPUX doesn't seem to ship with a set of troff macros that can handle the
> OpenSSH manpages. Maybe other OSs have this problem?

RGDS
GARY
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Re: Man pages on HPUX (and others?)rm [ In reply to ]

djm at mindrot

Jan 15, 2000, 3:47 PM

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On Sat, 8 Jan 2000, Andre Lucas wrote:

> HPUX doesn't seem to ship with a set of troff macros that can handle the
> OpenSSH manpages. Maybe other OSs have this problem?
>
> Rather than sodding about with the tmac/ directory, I think we should do
> one of two things:
>
> 1. Ship a set of preformatted manpages, and either auto-install them in
> $prefix/man/cat{1,1m} or just have instructions in INSTALL to do so
> 2. Recommend users install groff ;-)
>
> Neither is great, but as things stand right now HP users get garbage for
> manpages. It's not too much effort to provide them with pages
> preprocessed by a decent troff implementation, so I think we should do
> so. Opinions?

I am happy to ship preformatted manpages in a subdirectory. We just
need to be careful to ensure that the substituted paths in them
are correct.

Anyone want to take this on?

Regards,
Damien Miller

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