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From: calhoun@usaos.uucp (Warren D. Calhoun)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: cnews expire takes forever
Summary: Got it
Message-ID: <1990Sep08.131338.742@usaos.uucp>
Date: 8 Sep 90 13:13:38 GMT
References: <175@usaos.UUCP> <90Sep6.175510edt.558@smoke.cs.toronto.edu> <2828@litchi.bbn.com>
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In article <2828@litchi.bbn.com> rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz) writes:
>In <90Sep6.175510edt.558@smoke.cs.toronto.edu> moraes@cs.toronto.edu (Mark Moraes) writes:
>>Henry made a cryptic mention of awf, written specifically for this
>>purpose.  Since it hasn't shown up in comp.sources.unix yet...
>
>It just did...
>	/r$

You bet it did.  Got it last night and put it to work on about 100 man pages
from various places that I've been collecting.  It's slow (as advertised),
but it DOES work and it IS free.  Many thanks for the people who responded.

As a side note, some netters also recommended groff, so I tried that as well.
After getting gas, bison, gcc, g++, libg++, and groff, and only being able to
get gas and bison to compile (gcc doesn't like the Microsoft compiler and 
blows off with an out of macro space error), I was quite willing to wait the
extra time for awf to run.  Mind that I would still like to get groff up, but
until I can lick the macro problem in the MS compiler I guess I'll have to
wait.

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