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Subject: Re: groff alternative?
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Emanuel Strobl wrote:

> <>In case of cat pages it does, but like I wrote I want to be able to add
> packages and read their man pages without having to involve any other
> machine. So there's no way arround a lean *roff...
>
Since no-one had a sensible answer, why not try a version of original 
nroff from say 4.3BSD.  Hunting around, I found this: 
http://www.tuhs.org/.  Hopefully the most used macros will have stayed 
the same.  You'd need to grab usr.src and I'm sure it would need some 
tweaking...  depends just how much you care, I guess.

--Alex

PS To whoever starting putting in freebsd-current as well as 
freebsd-questions, please don't do that.  One list at a time...