mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu (Dan McMahill) writes:

>I seem to recall that under sunos (I don't have such a machine anymore)
>that

>man 7 man

>gave a summary of the macros for creating man pages and also had
>the SunOs guidelines for a "good" man page.

>Is such a thing documented for NetBSD somewhere?

4.4BSD has switched to the -mdoc macros for man pages.
There's /usr/share/misc/{man,mdoc}.template, mdoc(7), and mdoc.samples(7).

HTH,
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