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From: Don Yuniskis <dgy@rtd.com>
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Subject: man page hacking
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Date: Wed, 6 Mar 1996 12:30:38 -0700 (MST)
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Greetings!
     I'm trying to repair some existing and create some new
man pages.  But the macros are pretty much alphabet soup!
Can someone point me to a description of those used in man
pages?  Mightn't this want to be stashed away (handbook?)
for future reference?
    Thx,
--don