[openib-general] First draft of the man pages

dotanb at dev.mellanox.co.il dotanb at dev.mellanox.co.il
Mon Nov 20 10:03:27 PST 2006


>
>
> On Mon, 20 Nov 2006, Roland Dreier wrote:
>
>>  > I suggest formatting the width all of the pages to be 80 columns or
>>  > less.
>>
>> Doesn't nroff format man pages to fit the current terminal width
>> automatically?
>
> I'm not sure. On my system, several of the pages were wider than 80
> columns.
>
> To view the pages, I ran
>
>  man ./<filename>
>
> on the files Dotan sent.
>
When one writes a man pages he has the freedom to choose the man pages
format (if the lines will be longer than 80 bytes or not).

As i answered before, I'm working to fix it.

thanks
Dotan





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