Hi Paolo! On Thursday 18 December 2003 12:55, blacksheep wrote: > .so /usr/share/<package-name>/additional.1
This is a bit esoteric, but I export /usr/share/man from one of my systems and mount it (as /usr/local/share/man) on some others, so that I do not have to install manpages on every system. If I understand correctly, this would not work in such a case (because the included file would be outside the exported tree and not visible to the other machines), but that may or may not be worth worrying about. I may well be the only person silly enough to do things this way. =) Another (completely different) approach would be to write the documentation in DocBook XML and use XInclude to insert the common section(s) into each manpage before converting to troff with xmlto or a similar tool. (Note that I have not used XInclude for this yet, but it should work.) It might not be worth converting all your manpages to DocBook just for this, though. =) Cheers, nate -- Nathaniel W. Turner http://www.houseofnate.net/ Tel: +1 508 579 1948 (mobile) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
