README FOR THE MPATROL LIBRARY MANUAL PAGES


This directory may contain preformatted manual pages for the mpatrol library.
The manual pages will have been generated from the troff source using a variety
of tools and are provided partly for convenience and partly for people who do
not have suitable formatting tools installed on their system.  In all cases
these manual pages can be regenerated from the source, although there may be
slight changes in some files due to differences in the systems that they were
generated on.


The following files contain all of the information necessary to generate each of
the preformatted files.

  * man1/*.1 & man3/*.3
        Format:    TROFF
                   http://www.kohala.com/start/troff/troff.html
        Notes:     The unprocessed source of the mpatrol manual pages.


The following files are all formatted for on-line documentation.  They generally
contain little or no formatting codes, leaving the final formatting up to the
viewer program.

  * cat1/*.1 & cat3/*.3
        Format:    ASCII text
                   http://www.bbsinc.com/iso8859.html
        Generator: GROFF
                   http://www.gnu.org/software/groff/groff.html
        Viewer:    Any text viewer that can handle formatted manual pages.
        Notes:     Plain text with basic formatting codes.

  * html/*.html
        Format:    Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
                   http://www.w3c.org/MarkUp/
        Generator: Man2HTML
                   http://www.win.tue.nl/~rcb5/man2html.html
        Viewer:    Any web browser
        Notes:     Contains hypertext links with formatting codes.


The following files are all formatted for printed manuals.  All can be viewed
with a variety of programs, not just the ones listed here.

  * dvi/*.dvi
        Format:    Device Independent format (DVI)
                   http://www.tug.org/
        Generator: GROFF
                   http://www.gnu.org/software/groff/groff.html
        Viewer:    XDVI
                   http://www.math.berkeley.edu/~vojta/xdvi.html
        Notes:     Bitmapped fonts are built on demand to a suitable resolution
                   when viewing or printing.

  * ps/*.ps
        Format:    Adobe Postscript
                   http://www.adobe.com/
        Generator: GROFF
                   http://www.gnu.org/software/groff/groff.html
        Viewer:    Ghostview
                   http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/ghostview/
        Notes:     Contains standard Postscript Type 1 fonts.

  * pdf/*.pdf
        Format:    Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF)
                   http://www.adobe.com/
        Generator: PStill
                   http://www.this.net/~frank/pstill.html
        Viewer:    XPDF
                   http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/
        Notes:     Contains standard Postscript Type 1 fonts.