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From: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
Subject: [alt.sources.wanted] Re: Wanted: man source
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Archive-name: text/troff/awf/1990-12-17
Archive: cs.toronto.edu:/pub/awf.shar.Z [128.100.1.65]
Original-posting-by: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
Original-subject: Re: Wanted: man source
Reposted-by: emv@ox.com (Edward Vielmetti)

I have a pretty sophisticated man program you can, but it won't do you
much good without nroff.  For that, you could get 'awf', the Amazingly
Workable Formatter, which is Henry Spencer's awk (!!!) rewrite of "nroff
-man" (and a bit of "nroff -ms").

To get the man program, you can anon ftp from tut.cis.ohio-state.edu
in pub/perl/scripts/tchrist/man/*, or mail me.  To get the awf program,
it came to comp.sources.unix as:

    Submitted-by: henry@zoo.toronto.edu
    Posting-number: Volume 23, Issue 27
    Archive-name: awf

--tom
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Tom Christiansen		tchrist@convex.com	convex!tchrist
"With a kernel dive, all things are possible, but it sure makes it hard
 to look at yourself in the mirror the next morning."  -me