为什么仅在与男人一起查看时，我的手册页格式不正确？

Question

I am writing a man page for a program, the source looks like this:

.TH prog 1 "26 AUG 2010" "Version 0.1" "Center header"
.NAME
prog \- runs a program
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B prog

When I use

$ groff -Tascii -man source.txt | more

the output is pretty much as expected.

When I use:

$ groff -Tascii -man source.txt > prog.1 && \
sudo cp prog.1 /usr/local/man/man1/ && man prog

the ouput looks like this:

prog(2) Center header
prog(2)

prog - runs a program

Version 0.1 26 AUG 2010

I'm on Ubuntu 8.04. I've verified that it isn't the pager because I also tried man -P more and still had the same odd output. What's going on?

Answer 1

Because man runs groff itself internally - it's not expecting you to have done it already. Just copy your source.txt straight into /usr/local/man/man1/prog.1 , and it should work fine.