From: Warren Toomey <wkt@henry.cs.adfa.oz.au>
Message-Id: <199812290814.TAA22809@henry.cs.adfa.oz.au>
Subject: Re: Converting Sixth Edition man pages
To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey)
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 19:14:38 +1100 (EST)
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In-Reply-To: <19981229123952.B12346@freebie.lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "Dec 29, 98 12:39:52 pm"
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In article by Greg Lehey:
> I have the Sixth Edition man pages on my machine, but I can't do much
> with them, since they use obsolete macros.  Is there any way to
> convert them to the Seventh Edition style?
> 
> Greg

My off-the-cuff suggestion is to read the man(7) pages for both V6 and V7,
and write a Perl script to make the changes :-) That's probably the `best'
solution, but would take time.

Do you want to preserve the markup, or just want to view the manpages?
Just viewing them would be easier, of course!

Ciao,
	Warren