On 17 September 2011 23:50, Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se> wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Sep 2011, Steve Holme wrote:
[...]
>> Additionally, are there any editors that you would recommend for Windows
>> that will allow me to work with man pages (if I have understood the .3 files
>> to be that format)?
>
> The man pages are done in the nroff format, and that's a mighty weird
> format. I edit those in my favourite text editor, but the syntax is weird
> and I suggest you just copy and paste from other pages/sections.

See also:

http://www.quut.com/berlin/ms/troff.html
http://www.fnal.gov/docs/products/ups/ReferenceManual/html/manpages.html

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Michael Wood <esiotrot_at_gmail.com>
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