They are written in Perl's POD format for two reasons: First Perl is already
needed for SSLeay and second, POD is easy to write and maintain _AND_ created
nice looking NRoff manpages.
The idea is to have three manual pages:
openssl(1) ... The manpage for the `openssl' program (formerly ssleay)
crypto(3) .... The manpage for crypto.h/libcrypto.a
ssl(3) ....... The manpage for ssl.h/libssl.a
The openssl(1) should be very similar to cvs(1), i.e. it should document all
commands in a compact way. And I've even created the first cut for an
overview of all 243 functions of the SSL API for ssl.pod. More to come...