How to use this --------------- DEPENDENCIES To use the makefile, you need the following commands: make man install gzip USAGE 1. Edit 'makefile' and set the MANDIR variable to the directory where you want the manual page installed. The default is for a general-purpose command, to be put into section 1 of the manual, stored in /usr/local/share/man/man1. 2. Edit the .1 file. Replace placeholders with the information for your command. If you need to know how to do more complicated things than are included in the template, Find an existing manual page that has something similar and uncompress it to learn how to do it in nroff. For example, if you need to do something similar to what you see in the ls(1) manual page, $ cp /usr/share/man/man1/ls.gz . $ gunzip ls.gz $ less ls.1 The following references describe formatting codes and what to put in the manual page: ./manpage_quick_ref.txt man(7) man-pages(7) 3. Check your edits with 'make test' 4. Install your manual page with 'sudo make install'