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From: stripes@pix.com (Josh Osborne)
Subject: Re: ->386bsd! man-pages.Z ?
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Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 03:16:57 GMT
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In article <JKH.92Nov16125945@whisker.lotus.ie> jkh@whisker.lotus.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes:
> Get Tom Christiansen's perl rewrite of man. ftp to convex.com.
>
>Or, if you don't feel like hassling with perl, grab the BNR2 man port
>I posted here a week or so back (I really should put it up on ref.ftp.com)..
Unless the BNR2 man is unlike it's ancesters it will be far slower then
the Perl man, and have far fewer fetures (and yes, many of the fetures
are useful, many are useless). Of corse I don't know which is larger (including
the perl executable, excluuding it, the perl man is smaller)...
--
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