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From: palowoda@fiver (Bob Palowoda)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: re: man pages
Message-ID: <1990Nov1.081123.29686@fiver>
Date: 1 Nov 90 08:11:23 GMT
References: <1990Oct30.202322.8350@ico.isc.com>
Organization: Fiver Communications, Fremont, Ca
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From article <1990Oct30.202322.8350@ico.isc.com>, by rcd@ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn):
> 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)...
> 
> Hey, it's not "non-standard" - it's just a different standard!  (that's as
> in "The nice thing about standards is there are so many to choose from.":-)
> Actually, there's a reason for the change, and it's not just Interactive's
> doing.

   Ok, I'll bite. Whats the reason.

---Bob

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