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From: ken@turtlevax.UUCP (Ken Turkowski)
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Subject: Re: Man pages: Nroff not part of systen V?
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Date: Tue, 17-Sep-85 23:55:45 EDT
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In article <230@drivax.UUCP> alan@drivax.UUCP (Alan Fargusson) writes:
>Nroff is not part of the System V distribution. Even when it is
>some of the macro pacakages that you BSD type are use to are not
>present. When you post a man page for something like 'less' you
>MUST post the formated version.

I can't believe that nroff and the -man macros are not supplied with UNIX
by AT&T.  They developed it.  What do they use for documentation?

I would prefer to have the nroffable version, so that it can be properly
formatted with boldface and italics.  It also makes it easier to update
documentation.
-- 
Ken Turkowski @ CADLINC, Menlo Park, CA
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