Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.7.0.8 $; site trsvax Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!convex!trsvax!gordon From: gordon@trsvax Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Man pages: Nroff not part of sy Message-ID: <55300054@trsvax> Date: Sun, 22-Sep-85 00:31:00 EDT Article-I.D.: trsvax.55300054 Posted: Sun Sep 22 00:31:00 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 24-Sep-85 03:28:10 EDT References: <901@turtlevax.UUCP> Lines: 16 Nf-ID: #R:turtlevax.UUCP:-90100:trsvax:55300054:000:708 Nf-From: trsvax!gordon Sep 21 23:31:00 1985 Please do NOT post already-formatted manual pages, post the nroff source for use with the -man macros. Formatted manual pages have lots of control character sequences in them, and there is probably lots of software out there that horribly mangles control characters (yes, even just backspaces) in news articles, both for people trying to read the article, and also for passing it on to the next system. These aren't going to be of much use to anyone unless you uuencode them or something (Ok, how many people don't have uuencode?) I don't know what software does it, but there seems to be plenty of it out there. Gordon Burditt ihnp4!sys1!sneaky!gordon convex!ctvax!trsvax!sneaky!gordon Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com