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| author | Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2020-11-04 15:55:13 +0100 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2020-11-04 15:55:13 +0100 |
| commit | 5b3a141a670ee2e01785a2cda0095fc201100077 (patch) | |
| tree | 0d583e2228825ecffd52cb04d6b6909f7af9ed14 | |
| parent | c9e4bf8b1d5445051f49ee0c456345f305e11dd7 (diff) | |
README: Add a few details
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | README | 17 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 4 deletions
@@ -1,16 +1,25 @@ Conversion of Open Group's troff sources to POSIX man pages =========================================================== +This directory contains files and scripts that are used to convert +the POSIX manual pages to 'man' format, suitable for release by the +Linux man-pages project. + 1. Necessary data: ================== -- obtainable from The Open Group - - directory with the troff sources +* obtainable from The Open Group + - directory with the troff sources [1] - file ,xref.5 containing information to crossreferences - file _strings.def containing information to references to other standards -- obtainable online - - the HTML version of the standard +* obtainable online + - the HTML version of the standard [2] + +[1] The troff sources are not part of this repository, and must be + obtained by contacting The Open Group. +[2] As at November 2020, the HTML version of the standard can be + downloaded from https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/. The directory of troff sources contains four directories: "Builtins", |