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diff --git a/kit/makeSH.man b/kit/makeSH.man new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ef8ed89 --- /dev/null +++ b/kit/makeSH.man @@ -0,0 +1,46 @@ +.\" $Id: makeSH.man 3 2006-08-25 21:39:07Z rmanfredi $ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 1991-1997, 2004-2006, Raphael Manfredi +.\" +.\" You may redistribute only under the terms of the Artistic Licence, +.\" as specified in the README file that comes with the distribution. +.\" You may reuse parts of this distribution only within the terms of +.\" that same Artistic Licence; a copy of which may be found at the root +.\" of the source tree for dist 4.0. +.\" +.\" $Log: makeSH.man,v $ +.\" Revision 3.0 1993/08/18 12:04:27 ram +.\" Baseline for dist 3.0 netwide release. +.\" +.\" +.TH MAKESH 1 LOCAL +.SH NAME +makeSH \- a .SH script maker +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B makeSH +.I files +.SH DESCRIPTION +.I MakeSH +examines one or more scripts and produces a .SH file that, when run under sh, +will produce the original script. +The .SH script so produced has two sections containing code destined for +the output. +The first section has variable substitutions performed on it (taking values +from config.sh), while the second section does not. +MakeSH does not know which variables you want to have substituted, so it puts +the whole script into the second section. +It's up to you to insert any variable substitutions in the first section +for any values you want from config.sh. +.PP +You should run +.I makeSH +from within your top-level directory and use the relative path to the file +as an argument, so that the "Extracting ..." line printed while running +the produced .SH file later on will give that same path. +.SH AUTHOR +Larry Wall <lwall@netlabs.com> +.SH SEE ALSO +pat(1), metaconfig(1), makedist(1). +.SH BUGS +It could assume that variables from metaconfig's Glossary need to be +initialized in the first section, but I'm too lazy to make it do that. |