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Impressario Product Manual Page Templates
This directory contains templates for manual pages. It is recommended that an
Impressario support product contain at least a manual page describing the
product. This manual page is typically given the name of the product.
Additional manual pages may also be distributed. These additional manual
pages can describe any driver or filter programs provided by the product.
Edit the templates as appropriate for your product.
Manual pages are created using the UNIX text formatting language of the
nroff(1) program. The nroff program is part of the Documenter's Workbench
product. This product is an option product sold separately. Refer to the
documentation provided with the Documenter's Workbench product for a
complete description of the nroff formatting language. The templates provided
here should allow a manual page to be created with a minimal understanding
of the formatting language. Note that you must have the Documenter's
Workbench program installed on the development system in order to create a
man page for your product.
Source manual pages are given the suffix of the UNIX manual section they
represent. For an Impressario printing support product this will typically
be section 1 so the suffix to manual page source files will be '.1'. For
distribution a source manual page is formatted using the nroff program and
compressed. The resulting "compiled" manual page will have the suffix '.z'.
It is this '.z' file that is distributed with the product. The source manual
page is not distributed. To create the "compiled" manual pages use the
Makefile in this directory. Type 'make' to compile the source manual pages
and type 'make clean' to remove any compiled manual pages. Compiled manual
pages can be read in the directory in which they are created by using the
command 'man -d <manpage>.z'. Note that all manual pages must be named
with lowercase letters.
Typically, all Impressario manual pages (section 1 pages) should be installed
in the directory /usr/share/catman/u_man/cat1.
This directory contains the following manual page source files:
product_template.1
This manual page serves as a template for an Impressario support
product manual page. Edit this manual page to describe your product.
The inclusion of a product manual page with your Impressario support
product is highly recommended.
program_template.1
This manual page is a template for a specific program within an
Impressario support product. Typical programs are drivers and
filters. Inclusion of program manual pages with your Impressario
support product is optional.