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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: System V.4
Message-ID: <2201@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 31 Oct 90 02:49:48 GMT
References: <273@srchtec.UUCP> <1990Oct23.022053.1299@unixland.uucp> <2187@sixhub.UUCP> <1990Oct29.120300.4512@nstar.uucp>
Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
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In article <1990Oct29.120300.4512@nstar.uucp> larry@nstar.uucp (Larry Snyder) writes:

| Interactive has on-line manuals as well - but they use a non-standard format
| for them (at least none of the other software packages get their man pages
| installed correctly).  I've had to manually pipe the man pages for cnews,
| smail3, nn, elm and other packages through nroff using "nroff -man < in > out".
| 
| Is that the same for SCO?

  No. I can take man pages right from any old net software and put it in
the right directory and it works. And when it's used the formatted
versions sits in another directory, where I can delete it with a find
looking for man pages not used in N days (and for which I have the
original).

  Oh, and you can store the roff format pages compressed with pack.
That's not as good as compress, but a lot better than nothing.

  In short I find the SCO man system to be highly reliable, convenient,
and well thought out. And I don't give complements often ;-)
-- 
bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen)
    sysop *IX BBS and Public Access UNIX
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me