hi monks,

I am tryng to create a man page for some commands.I am creating a direcory by the name of cat.1 in /usr/man and in that direcory i am storing a file cmsd.1 which consist of some details about this command cmsd. Now when i am typing man cmsd ,its not working instead its giving errors like this 

man[6]: .B:  not found.
man[7]: .SH:  not found.
man[2]: .TH:  not found.
man[3]: .SH:  not found.
man[4]: sample:  not found.
man[5]: .SH:  not found.
man[6]: .B:  not found.
man[7]: .SH:  not found.

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and so on in the same fashion ,I am not able to find out what the problem is it will be of great help if someone can guide me into creating man pages

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