formatting man pages without DWB (FAQ)

[James Helman]

     So, my question is, given access to Suns & DECstations it possible
     to produce irix man pages w/o spending $300 on DWB?

  Use:  nroff -man

  This is a cleaver option.  The option is -m with an argument 'an'.

At least as of 3.3.1, no DWB means no nroff.  So this won't get you
very far.  There is an awk-based formatter called AWF (A workable
formatter) written by Henry Spencer.  A version for IRIX including a
fake nroff/tbl/eqn script is available by anonymous ftp to
fresnel.stanford.edu.  Look for pub/4D/awf-sgi.tar.Z

-jim

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