awf - amazing working formatter - is an nroff emulator especially designed for man pages.
Silicon Graphics workstations do not come with Documentor's Work Bench utilities, which include nroff, troff, etc. This utility is used to convert a typical man page written in nroff into something readable on an SGI workstation. To use awf:
awf -man nroff-file (most man page format)The following example will save that newly formatted man page as file.2.
awf -man file.1 > file.2To display the man page on the standard output:
awf -man file.1 | moreOn Silicon Graphics workstations, man pages must be stored in packed format. After running awf, simply type:
pack filenameThe result is a packed file with the same name but with a '.z' extension:
filename.zwhich should be placed in a man page directory (either /usr/catman or /usr/local/catman.
For more information on the pack command, consult the chapter on utilities.