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From: darcy@druid.uucp (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
Subject: Re: help with sys file
Message-ID: <1991May24.150228.21287@druid.uucp>
Organization: D'Arcy Cain Consulting, West Hill, Ontario
References: <1991May19.014130.25630@unixland.uucp> <1991May19.023101.29200@zoo.toronto.edu> <1991May23.221143.8781@unixland.uucp>
Date: Fri, 24 May 91 15:02:28 GMT

In article <1991May23.221143.8781@unixland.uucp> Bill Heiser writes:
>Thanks for setting me straight.  The reason I was "trying to wing it"
>as you say, is that I don't have a good way to read the troff-format
>documentation.  Those of use running on systems without text processing
>packages have a real time of it when it comes to decyphering formatting

Bill, you are running Esix so you should have deroff.  Give it a shot.
It isn't perfect but it's better than reading troff source.

Does Virtual Technologies still offer their printed man page set?
For ~$50 I got 2 binders worth of stuff and Cnews docs were included
along with Bnews, Gnu docs and tons of other stuff.  Possibly a good
deal even if you have a formatter.

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