man

Nads · July 16, 2002, 6:53am

If i have my own application ( say 'myTool'), then is it possible to create a man page for it?
such that "man myTool" will give information about it.

if so how to go about it?

thanks in advance,

Nads

RTM · July 16, 2002, 8:50am

Nads · July 16, 2002, 11:39pm

Thanks RTM.

killerserv · July 17, 2002, 2:05am

This is how i create my Man page,

.TH XX
.SH NAME
XX
.SH SYNOPSIS
XX
.B
.PP
XX
.SH DESCRIPTION
.PP
XX
.PP
XX
.SH FILES
.PP
$HOME/X/XX/.bla.x
.SH BUGS
XX

Try replace the X with your own word. I use nroff -man <manpage> to view the man page that i have create.