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authorJeff Bigler <jcb@mit.edu>1996-09-09 19:10:00 +0000
committerJeff Bigler <jcb@mit.edu>1996-09-09 19:10:00 +0000
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Fixed header.doc so manpages say "MIT" rather than "Cygnus". 8-)
Updated man page for man2ps script. git-svn-id: svn://anonsvn.mit.edu/krb5/trunk@9067 dc483132-0cff-0310-8789-dd5450dbe970
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@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ is a bourne shell script that turns a man page into a set of PostScript
files, for inclusion in a document.
.B man2ps
converts the man page to a PostScript file using
-.IR troff (1),
+.IR groff (1),
and then uses the
.IR csplit (1)
command to split the file into individual pages.
@@ -20,12 +20,12 @@ inserts the PostScript command:
.sp
.nf
.in +.5i
-\&.7 dup scale
+\&0.85 dup scale
.in -.5i
.fi
.sp
-at the beginning of each page, so that the pages will fit onto a page in
-a standard size reference manual (7"x9.25").
+at the beginning of each page, so that the pages will fit onto an
+8.5"x11" page.
.PP
The files created by
.B man2ps
@@ -38,7 +38,13 @@ on the file "kinit.M" would produce the PostScript files "kinit1.ps",
troff(1), csplit(1)
.SH BUGS
.B man2ps
-fails if the
+requires the user to have
+.I groff
+and either
.I csplit
-command is not in the user's path.
-
+or
+.I gcsplit
+in her path.
+.SH AUTHORS
+.B man2ps
+was written by Jeff Bigler at Cygnus Support and Theodore Ts'o at MIT.