Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2017 18:50:22 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Gordon Tetlow <gordon@tetlows.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Removal of catman from base Message-ID: <77524.1505242222@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <20170912184200.GD99742@gmail.com> References: <20170912184200.GD99742@gmail.com>
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-------- In message <20170912184200.GD99742@gmail.com>, Gordon Tetlow writes: >With modern hardware, it doesn't seem to be necessary to have pre-formatted >man pages as rendering them is short enough to not be noticeable. That was actually not why catman was brought into the world: ATT/USL thought text-processing was The Goods so they unbundled it base SVR and invented catman to make up for the missing nroff. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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