g.nroff

NAME

g.nroff - runs nroff on a GRASS manual page
(GRASS Shell Script)

g.nroff help
g.nroff name [value]
g.nroff < name

g.nroff is a Bourne shell script that runs nroff on a GRASS manual page and prints the results to standard output.

name: Name of a GRASS man page (full path to roff source)
section: Integer section of the manual.
1 for main programs
2 for alpha programs
3 for shell scripts
4 for contributed, untested code
5 file format descriptions
Default: 4

g.nroff is likely to be used by programmers when preparing documentation for their code.

$GISBASE/scripts/g.nroff

James Darrell McCauley,
Agricultural Engineering
Purdue University

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