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On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Paul Robinson wrote:

> From: "James P. Howard II" <howardjp@vocito.com>

> > groff - look at alternate doc formatting?
>
> Not likely.  Every man-page ever written needs groff.

No, every man page ever written needs nroff.  SGI stopped shipping nroff
and started shipping preformatted man pages about a decade ago now (they
decided they didn't wish to pay AT&T for the privilege any longer).  I
wouldn't bother to compile to compile and install groff on my Irix boxes
if third party software came with preformatted manpages.

Jamie Bowden

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