Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!apple!mips!twg.com!david From: david@twg.com (David S. Herron) Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386 Subject: Re: Dell System V Release 4 Message-ID: <8637@gollum.twg.com> Date: 8 Feb 91 23:42:07 GMT References: <14677@uudell.dell.com> <14736@uudell.dell.com> <3I59Z5G@xds13.ferranti.com> Organization: The Wollongong Group, Palo Alto, CA Lines: 26 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? In faaaact .. I vaguely recall a posting in comp.sources.misc sometime in the last few months by Henry Spencer which was *exactly* that. (Written in shell+awk). As I recall there was a comment at the beginning to the effect "I don't believe I did this." -- <- David Herron, an MMDF & WIN/MHS guy, <- Formerly: David Herron -- NonResident E-Mail Hack <- <- MS-DOS ... The ultimate computer virus.