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From: merritt@iris613.gsfc.nasa.gov (John H Merritt)
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Subject: Re: formatting man pages without DWB (FAQ)
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Date: 24 Apr 91 16:55:09 GMT
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In article <2EB2E22A400004B0@MSUS1.MSUS.EDU> TKIRKMAN%MOE@MSUS1.MSUS.EDU (Tom Kirkman) writes:

>I have access to a sun where I tried
>neqn file.1 | tbl | nroff | col | compress >file.Z
>without success.
>
>So, my question is, given access to Suns & DECstations it possible
>to produce irix man pages w/o spending $300 on DWB?

Use:  nroff -man

This is a cleaver option.  The option is -m with an argument 'an'.

              John H. Merritt --> merritt@iris613.gsfc.nasa.gov
              Applied Research Corporation at NASA/GSFC
              "I am generally intolerant of ignorance,
               but I have made an exception in your case."