Documentation on -man macro and changing pagelength in -man

[Pat Broderick]

In article <3865 at kitty.UUCP>, larry at kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman) writes:
> 
> 	I have been writing manual pages in *roff using the -man macro
> ....
> writing and just set .pl manually.  Still no joy.
> 

I had the same problem a long time ago and solved it by putting a .pl in
the *roff file AFTER the .TH which defines title, etc.  From what I
remember I believe .TH arbitrarily set page length to 66.  BTW if you
ever find useful documentation I'd like to know.

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