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Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 16:21:39 +0000
From: Dominic Mitchell <dom@semantico.com>
To: "Justin W. Pauler" <jwpauler@jwpages.com>
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Subject: Re: mdoc
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On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 09:56:32AM -0600, Justin W. Pauler wrote:
> I've noticed alot of committs over the last hours of mdoc stuff, like man -> 
> mdoc and such. Can someone explain what mdoc is and what is happening to the 
> man pages?

I don't know what changes are being made, but mdoc is a BSD enhanced
version of the traditional troff -man macro set.  It's basically a lot
more flexible with regards to output.  It's also slower, but that's of
little consequence these days.

For more details see mdoc(7) or mdoc.samples(7).

-Dom


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