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From: ronald@robobar.co.uk (Ronald S H Khoo)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Pricing and cost
Message-ID: <1990Dec4.211419.2599@robobar.co.uk>
Date: 4 Dec 90 21:14:19 GMT
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rstevens@noao.edu (Rich Stevens) writes:
 
> Speaking of which, does anyone know the status of troff and man-pages
> for 4.4BSD ?
> [ ... ]
> or else they were going to reformat all the man
> pages in TeX and use TeX for the man pages.

NO!  PLEASE NO!  Even shipping "awf" the "awf"ully slow nroff -m(s|an)
replacement written in awk by Henry Spencer would be better than that!

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