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From: henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu (Charles Henrich)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: CAT manpages? Why the hell??
Date: 13 Feb 1995 17:27:44 -0500
Organization: Michigan State University
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rick@vox.trystero.com (Richard E. Nickle) writes:
>In article <3hjbk5$p5c@crh.cl.msu.edu>,
>Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu> wrote:
>>Why are the man pages that are shipped with Net/FreeBSD in cat format instead
>>of nroff sources? Why why why!?
>Look closer. They're compressed nroff, not compressed cat [at least on
>FreeBSD, it's been awhile since I ran NetBSD, but I think it was the same
>thing, only uncompressed back on 0.9].
>That might be what's confusing you, I know that cat manpages are normally
>compressed, and nroff sources are usually uncompressed.
Yes, Im a bozo, I shouldnt have said free ;)
-Crh
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