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From: williamt@athena1.Sun.COM (William A. Turnbow)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: man pages...
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Date: 1 Jun 89 15:06:27 GMT
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Reply-To: williamt@sun.UUCP (William A. Turnbow)
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In article <7033@cbmvax.UUCP> grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) writes:
>Since man pages therefore "cost extra" and also require "nroff/troff"
>to format for display, some vendors have chosen to unbundle them or
>bundle them with their "text processing packages" which you have to buy
>to get nroff/troff support.
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Some vendors choose not to supply them at all -- specifically some
386 vendors.  Truely a loss in productivity and usefulness.  Imagine having
to dig out a manual every time you want to look something up and no
'man' command being available.  Ug.  

-wat-