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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Dell System V Release 4
Message-ID: <11279@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 2 Feb 91 01:17:46 GMT
References: <1991Feb1.111039.5463@pegasus.com> <1991Jan28.212845.18306@hssiarl.uucp> <14677@uudell.dell.com> <14736@uudell.dell.com> <3I59Z5G@xds13.ferranti.com>
Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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In article <3I59Z5G@xds13.ferranti.com> peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
: 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?

Geoff Collyer is working on one of those, according to Henry Spencer.
I don't know when he plans to finish it by.  But it'd be a fun little
project.

By the way, it "Randal", if you're referring to my partner in crime.

Larry Wall
lwall@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov