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Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 18:49:09 +1030
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: wkt@cs.adfa.oz.au
Cc: Unix Heritage Society <pups@minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au>
Subject: Re: Converting Sixth Edition man pages
References: <19981229123952.B12346@freebie.lemis.com> <199812290814.TAA22809@henry.cs.adfa.oz.au>
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In-Reply-To: <199812290814.TAA22809@henry.cs.adfa.oz.au>; from Warren Toomey on Tue, Dec 29, 1998 at 07:14:38PM +1100
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On Tuesday, 29 December 1998 at 19:14:38 +1100, Warren Toomey wrote:
> 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?
>
> 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.

perl?  What's perl?  :-)  But yes, that was one alternative, one I
hadn't thought worth the trouble.

> Do you want to preserve the markup, or just want to view the manpages?
> Just viewing them would be easier, of course!

In fact, I'm not sure that just viewing them *would* be easier.  From
observation, the markup isn't too different from the -an macros.  A
lot of the macros seem to be the same, just in a different case.  But
there are enough differences that I wouldn't want to tackle it right
now.

Greg
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