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From: stolcke@ICSI.Berkeley.EDU (Andreas Stolcke)
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Subject: Re: Wanted: -ms macros
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Date: 30 Oct 90 22:21:51 GMT
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In article <4209@auspex.auspex.com>, guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:
|> >I believe -me is Sun Microsystems proprietary.
|> 
|> You believe incorrectly.  It was cooked up at Berkeley, comes with
|> 4.xBSD (that's where SunOS picked it up), and in the 4.3-tahoe version
|> has the Berkeley "AT&T-free" copyright notice.

-me macros are by Eric Allman (eric@berkeley.edu), well-know UNIX guru
in these parts.

-me (along with a recreation of -man, BTW) is also part of the GNU suit of
troff-related software called groff (available from prep.ai.mit.edu).

-- 
Andreas Stolcke
International Computer Science Institute	stolcke@icsi.Berkeley.EDU
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