On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 12:33:24PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2007-10-30 20:04, Tim Kientzle <kientzle_at_freebsd.org> wrote: > >>> I've had some requests from people who want to use the > >>> libarchive and bsdtar manpages on non-BSD systems that don't > >>> support -mdoc. > >>> > >>> Any problems if I reworked these manpages to only require > >>> -man-old for compatibility with these systems? (Other than > >>> the inherent tediousness of such a project, that is.) > >> > >> Yes. At least from me. > > > > All good points. Any leads on software that can convert from > > -mdoc to -man? That would neatly address this issue for me. > > Not really. I haven't really used -man for any substantial > amount of work in years. Maybe Ruslan, who is our groff-guru > knows about something? > I'm not aware of any such tools. But perhaps having formatted versions of manpages (aka catpages) available in the libarchive distribution would be enough. Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov ru_at_FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committerReceived on Wed Oct 31 2007 - 15:23:07 UTC
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