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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Dell System V Release 4
Message-ID: <3I59Z5G@xds13.ferranti.com>
Date: 1 Feb 91 20:08:21 GMT
References: <1991Feb1.111039.5463@pegasus.com> <1991Jan28.212845.18306@hssiarl.uucp> <14677@uudell.dell.com> <14736@uudell.dell.com>
Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
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In article <14736@uudell.dell.com> jrh@mustang.dell.com (James Howard) writes:
> Pre-formatted.  AT&T says source to man-pages is like the rest of the
> source, in that it requires a source license ($$$).  I'm sure if you send
> AT&T enough dinero, they will be happy to send you the man source...

You know, it occurs to me that a hack to convert nroff -manned output to
nroff -man source might be relatively easy to do with a little shell,
perl, awk, tcl, or whatever script. The macros are simple enough and the
output predictable enough that it shouldn't be too hard. Randall?
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