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Date:      Wed, 11 Sep 2019 09:52:44 -0400
From:      Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>
To:        Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Where is the info viewer?
Message-ID:  <44ftl3hrdf.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
In-Reply-To: <20190911110708.95a9b3f8.freebsd@edvax.de> (Polytropon's message of "Wed, 11 Sep 2019 11:07:08 %2B0200")
References:  <20190910070033.GA29721@admin.sibptus.ru> <alpine.BSF.2.20.1909102030500.59741@fledge.watson.org> <20190911041439.9ba45e18.freebsd@edvax.de> <10971217-3072-cfee-785d-3748e9879a2f@gmail.com> <20190911110708.95a9b3f8.freebsd@edvax.de>

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Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> writes:

> On a fresh install of FreeBSD 12.0 amd64, I installed something via pkg,
> and then used "man <something>", which complained that I need to install
> groff. I did that - and the manpage could be read. I'm just mentioning
> this because I've never seen this before...

Historically, man(1) was essentially "nroff -man" under the covers.



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