Um... what format are Cygwin manpages?

[mwoehlke]

mwoehlke wrote:
> mwoehlke wrote:
>> I thought I'd have a crack at fixing the manpage for printf(3) (see 
>> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-08/msg00288.html), but when I opened 
>> it, I was a bit shocked to discover that it is only *MARGINALLY* in 
>> troff format. I do note that other manpages seem more "normal" (man1 
>> pages, for instance)... So, is this just "how the C lib manpages are"?
>>
>> I am not going to submit a "patch" on this mess. If I do anything with 
>> it, I am going to submit a proper troff document. Given how much work 
>> I would have to do to fix the existing page, I am much more inclined 
>> to take my printf.3 from my Linux box and adjust it into consistency 
>> with Cygwin's printf() instead. I'm willing to clean up the existing 
>> manpage, but I think the style of the Linux manpage would be an 
>> improvement (what we have looks like it came from HP-UX or something).
>>
>> Any opinions?
> 
> Ok, no doubt this manpage needs to be overhauled. I am going from the 
> Linux page and finding several omissions in the one currently in Cygwin 
> ("%F", as well as "%ll?").
> 
> WCTS, does anyone know to what extent locale stuff is supported? The 
> "%'" modifier? "%*d", etc? "%$1d", etc? "%*1$d", etc?

Ok, experimenting shows that all of the above EXCEPT "%'" are supported 
(no great surprise). However, I also noticed that "%a", which is 
required by C99, is not supported?

I have a modified Linux manpage almost ready to go; I assume that goes 
to cygwin.patches?

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Matthew
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