Man pages

[Jim Drake]

These files ending with '.0' appear to be just ascii text files.  When I use the
"--catman=cat" configure option, these files are installed directly as ascii text
files and are therefore not suitable as man pages.  Other applications I have
recently installed always seem to have man pages with a format similar to below in
the tarball :

.SH NAME
scp2 \- secure copy client

.SH SYNOPSIS
.na
.B scp2

Apologies if this is not the correct place to ask such questions and thanks for
the help so far.

Damien Miller wrote:

> On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Jim Drake wrote:
>
> > There are only minor differences between the '.1' and '.1.out' files.
> >
> > I can display these on redhat linux 6 because there is an appropriate macro
> > to prepend to the file.  I can find no such macro on Solaris 2.6.  I can find
> > no preformatted manpages in the portable openssh distribution - only the ones
> > above which I can not use!  Any help appreciated.
>
> They are there:
>
> [djm at mothra dist]$ tar ztvf openssh-2.2.0p1.tar.gz | grep '\.0$'
> -rw-rw-r-- djm/djm        2591 2000-09-05 14:16:32 openssh-2.2.0p1/scp.0
> -rw-rw-r-- djm/djm        3202 2000-09-05 14:16:32 openssh-2.2.0p1/ssh-add.0
> -rw-rw-r-- djm/djm        4772 2000-09-05 14:16:32 openssh-2.2.0p1/ssh-agent.0
> -rw-rw-r-- djm/djm        6828 2000-09-05 14:16:32 openssh-2.2.0p1/ssh-keygen.0
> -rw-rw-r-- djm/djm       42238 2000-09-05 14:16:33 openssh-2.2.0p1/ssh.0
> -rw-rw-r-- djm/djm       37293 2000-09-05 14:16:33 openssh-2.2.0p1/sshd.0
>
> They can be installed by default using the "--with-catman=cat" configure
> option.
>
> -d
>
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