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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: 25 Apr 91 14:54:09 GMT
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In article <JIM.91Apr24114831@baroque.Stanford.EDU> you write:
>
>     So, my question is, given access to Suns & DECstations it possible
                                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
He was running the command 'nroff' on these machines which have DWB.
I was merely giving him the options to use and assumed that he
could put them into context.

>At least as of 3.3.1, no DWB means no nroff.  So this won't get you
>very far.

Don't flame me.  Just provide this information ...
>  There is an awk-based formatter called AWF (A workable
[bla...]

Flame me if the original poster was a 'she'  :-)

              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."