On 2010-08-20 13:00 +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > > I'd like to include a simple diagram in a man page, > > IIRC, some of the Sun OS man pages from the 80s used to have the odd > diagram. It may be worth a grep through collections of man pages to see > if you can find some that use tbl, or pic, etc., and see how they handle > the different output formats.
Took the oldest Sun man pages I have, formatted them on a Debian box and searched the resulting 35 MB of text for /----|____|====/. Found many tables but only one graph, which was ASCII art. Then again there were so many warnings from Groff that it's hard to conclude anything. And that was Solaris 2.5, hardly the eighties. (If anybody has old Unix man pages lying around, I'm always interested BTW.) -- André Majorel http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/
