They use the BSD -mandoc format. -man under BSD uses either the old an macros
or the newer andoc depending on the source. I would look at groff again since
it ships with the andoc macros as part of the dist. You can manually see the
pages using:
gnroff -mandoc /path/manpage | less
You can override this by setting some environment variables and running a normal
man. I alias man under tcsh to:
alias man 'env TCAT=less TROFF="gnroff -mandoc" man -t'
It is unintuitive to do this since -t usually send to lp, but the -t really
means use the TROFF converter which has been defined to 'gnroff -mandoc',
sending the output to TCAT, defined as less instead of lp above. It would be
nice if the man page said this...
Good luck.
--Dave
>From: "Parsons, Rick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: OpenSSH man pages
>Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 11:59:34 -0000
>MIME-Version: 1.0
>
>I have completed a very successful install of OpenSSH 2.3.0p1 onto Solaris 7
>systems but I am having trouble with the man pages. They don't seem to use
>the standard nroff -man macros and hence do not display properly on my Sun
>boxes. Do they use some special macro set, if so does any one know where I
>can get it? I have tried rman and groff as well as the standard sun supplied
>man system.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Rick Parsons
>
>EDS Distributed Systems Management Centre
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>
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