From: Mike Elliott (elliottm@csulb.edu)
Date: 09/09/93 

From: elliottm@csulb.edu (Mike Elliott)
Subject: Re: Compiling a man page
Date: 9 Sep 1993 06:31:49 GMT

In article <26m9c4$o3r@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> bilan@cps.msu.edu (Thomas J Bilan) writes:

   I know this is a stupid question but how does one compile
   a man page? Is it the groff command or something like
   that. I can't seem to get it right...

Try specifying -Tascii -man as command line options; e.g., to see the man
page corresponding to doofus.1 type:

   groff -Tascii -man doofus.1