Converting Sixth Edition man pages

I have the Sixth Edition man pages on my machine, but I can't do much with them, since they use obsolete macros. Is there any way to convert them to the Seventh Edition style? Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog(a)lemis.com for PGP public key Received: (from major@localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) id TAA12241 for pups-liszt; Tue, 29 Dec 1998 19:12:50 +1100 (EST) Received: from henry.cs.adfa.oz.au (henry.cs.adfa.oz.au [131.236.21.158]) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id TAA12236 for <pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au>; Tue, 29 Dec 1998 19:12:44 +1100 (EST) Received: (from wkt@localhost) by henry.cs.adfa.oz.au (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA22809; Tue, 29 Dec 1998 19:14:38 +1100 (EST) From: Warren Toomey <wkt(a)henry.cs.adfa.oz.au> Message-Id: <199812290814.TAA22809(a)henry.cs.adfa.oz.au> Subject: Re: Converting Sixth Edition man pages To: grog(a)lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 19:14:38 +1100 (EST) Cc: pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au (Unix Heritage Society) In-Reply-To: <19981229123952.B12346(a)freebie.lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "Dec 29, 98 12:39:52 pm" Reply-To: wkt(a)cs.adfa.oz.au X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au Precedence: bulk In article by Greg Lehey: My off-the-cuff suggestion is to read the man(7) pages for both V6 and V7, and write a Perl script to make the changes :-) That's probably the `best' solution, but would take time. Do you want to preserve the markup, or just want to view the manpages? Just viewing them would be easier, of course! Ciao, Warren Received: (from major@localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) id TAA12285 for pups-liszt; Tue, 29 Dec 1998 19:19:35 +1100 (EST) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id TAA12280 for <pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au>; Tue, 29 Dec 1998 19:19:25 +1100 (EST) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id SAA02758; Tue, 29 Dec 1998 18:49:07 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id SAA33530; Tue, 29 Dec 1998 18:49:09 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19981229184909.O32696(a)freebie.lemis.com> Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 18:49:09 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog(a)lemis.com> To: wkt(a)cs.adfa.oz.au Cc: Unix Heritage Society <pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au> Subject: Re: Converting Sixth Edition man pages References: <19981229123952.B12346(a)freebie.lemis.com> <199812290814.TAA22809(a)henry.cs.adfa.oz.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199812290814.TAA22809(a)henry.cs.adfa.oz.au>; from Warren Toomey on Tue, Dec 29, 1998 at 07:14:38PM +1100 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au Precedence: bulk On Tuesday, 29 December 1998 at 19:14:38 +1100, Warren Toomey wrote: perl? What's perl? :-) But yes, that was one alternative, one I hadn't thought worth the trouble. In fact, I'm not sure that just viewing them *would* be easier. From observation, the markup isn't too different from the -an macros. A lot of the macros seem to be the same, just in a different case. But there are enough differences that I wouldn't want to tackle it right now. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog(a)lemis.com for PGP public key