Installing BIND 9's MAN pages

[Lisa Burke]

Thank you Jim.  I saw the archives, but they just weren't clear to me.  Your
explaination is though.  I appreciate it.

- Lisa

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Reid [mailto:jim at rfc1035.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 2:38 PM
To: Lisa Burke
Cc: bind-users at isc.org
Subject: Re: Installing BIND 9's MAN pages 


>>>>> "Lisa" == Lisa Burke <lburke at once.com> writes:

    Lisa> I have been successful in installing BIND 9.1.0 (on Solaris
    Lisa> 7), but have had problems integrating the accompanying man
    Lisa> pages.

Consult the archives or the archives of bind9-users. The subject has
been explained several times. The BIND man pages use the man macros
(mandoc) that come with BSD Unix and groff. These are not found on
Solaris. So to get prettily formatted man pages on this platform,
format them with the mandoc macros. The least painful way to do that
is install groff which uses them automatically. Or try

	nroff pathname-of-groff-mandoc-file favourite-man-page

A future BIND9 release will install man pages cleanly and might well
not use the mandoc macros.