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From: gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn <gwyn>)
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Subject: Re: Man pages: Nroff not part of systen V?
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Date: Thu, 19-Sep-85 17:34:10 EDT
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> >Nroff is not part of the System V distribution.
> 
> 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?

nroff is still available as optional (layered) software, in the DWB
package.  This is one of the items that got unbundled.  UNIX System V
licensees who upgraded before 01-Apr-1984 were generally offered the
DWB package "free" (ha) as part of the upgrade to Release 2.0.


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