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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!menudo.uh.edu!uuneo!sugar!peter From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: Some Sample Projects for 386BSD Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900 Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1993 13:11:16 GMT Message-ID: <C41BAt.33v@sugar.neosoft.com> References: <9303090526.AA07265@fubar.cs.montana.edu> <1nqplq$m11@sax.sax.de> <1993Mar17.001436.12874@fcom.cc.utah.edu> Lines: 15 In article <1993Mar17.001436.12874@fcom.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes: > Three reasons: [for abandoning mandoc, surely not? All three reasons are good reasons for keeping man pages, but why stick to -man instead of using something better?] > 1) Compatability with programs (like Xman) which like to pretty-print > manuals from troff sources (and won't work without them!). It would probably be less work to fix Xman, if it's *really* dependent on a macro set (I thought Xman just ran troff). -- Peter da Silva. <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>. `-_-' Oletko halannut suttasi tänään? 'U` Tarjoilija, tämä ateria elää vielä.