Re: -mdoc vs. -man

In the last episode (Oct 30), Tim Kientzle said:
I've had some requests from people who want to use the libarchive
and bsdtar manpages on non-BSD systems that don't support -mdoc.

Any problems if I reworked these manpages to only require -man-old
for compatibility with these systems? (Other than the inherent
tediousness of such a project, that is.)

Yes. At least from me.

All good points. Any leads on software that can convert from -mdoc
to -man? That would neatly address this issue for me.

I use mdoc2man.awk. There isn't really an official site for it, but you
probably have a copy on your system at /usr/src/crypto/openssh/mdoc2man.awk

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