On 2011-12-19, Bovy, Stephen wrote: > Thanks > > Someone on the MVS-OE mailing list made the following > observations ( which I do not fully understand ) >> > > When I've done this, I've NFS-shared the man1 and cat1 > directories between z/OS and Solaris. I have a script that > touches each page in the man1 directory, causing it to be > formatted into the cat1 directory. Then it works on z/OS. > > Someone should oughta build nroff for z/os. Not for the faint > hearted. Is it in Ported Tools? Even if it were, would "man" > recognize it? > > -- gil
On a typical Unix system, man pages are created using a markup language understood by the nroff, troff and groff document formatting programs. For consistency, and to hide the ugly details of that language, man pages usually written using macros that are a standard part of the man system. Unformatted man pages, that is, pages written in the markup language, reside in directories such as man/man1, man/man2, etc. Pages that have been formatted by the nroff or groff program and are ready to be viewed using a pager such as more or less reside in directories such as man/cat1, man/cat2, etc. Since there seems to be a problem with z/OS's formatting of man pages, Gil's solution was to use a Solaris man program to format all the pages and deposit them in the z/OS catN directories. The z/OS man command would then find the formatted versions and not try to format the pages itself. If z/OS is really incapable of formatting man pages, then I guess your only solutions are to use some other OS to format your man pages or to find formatted man pages on the web. Regards, Gary -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
