Re: Squid Man Page

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 03:12:02 +0100

If you give some rules on how to format a man page for a config file,
then we can easily build a "translator", extracting the relevant parts
from cf.data.pre.

* major/chapter heading
* text
* option name
* option availability comment
* option description
* option example data

/Henrik

Scott Schram wrote:
>
> At 03:57 PM 12/18/00, you wrote:
> >Sorry for the delay.
> >
> >Your man page looked good. Have added it to the main distribution, and
> >it is scheduled to appear in Squid-2.5.
> >
> >Regarding squid.conf man page. I think there is use for a man page for
> >squid.conf, but it should mostly be generated from cf.data(.pre) just
> >like squid.conf is. Information should not be duplicated in the sources.
> >
> >/Henrik
>
> Henrik,
>
> I understand what you want, and agree that it would be a good approach.
>
> I have some time to work on this now.
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