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diff --git a/kit/manifake.man b/kit/manifake.man new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8c76ba7 --- /dev/null +++ b/kit/manifake.man @@ -0,0 +1,46 @@ +''' $Id$ +''' +''' 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: manifake.man,v $ +''' Revision 3.0.1.1 1995/05/12 11:58:21 ram +''' patch54: updated my e-mail address +''' +''' Revision 3.0 1993/08/18 12:04:33 ram +''' Baseline for dist 3.0 netwide release. +''' +.TH MANIFAKE 1 ram +.SH NAME +manifake \- creates a MANIFEST.new out of a MANIFEST file +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B manifake +.SH DESCRIPTION +.I Manifake +is a real simpleminded program that takes a MANIFEST file, such as one +produced by a shar program, and creates a MANIFEST.new file ready to be +used by all the dist programs. What it does is that all archive numbers +are removed and the optional leading comments up to a dashed-line are +thrown away. +.PP +.I Manifake +will typically be used when converting an existing package +to use \fImetaconfig\fR or any other dist utility. +.SH AUTHOR +Raphael Manfredi <Raphael.Manfredi@pobox.com> +.SH FILES +.PD 0 +.TP 20 +MANIFEST +Original manifest produced by some shar program +.TP +MANIFEST.new +Faked manifest file, suitable for use by any dist programs. +.PD +.SH "SEE ALSO" +makedist(1), metaconfig(1), pat(1). |