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Date:      Sat, 8 Apr 1995 12:26:34 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
To:        nate@sneezy.sri.com
Cc:        taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: man(1) bug
Message-ID:  <199504081926.MAA15834@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
In-Reply-To: <199504081724.LAA23173@trout.sri.MT.net> from "Nate Williams" at Apr 8, 95 11:24:46 am

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> 
> Brian Tao writes:
> > On Fri, 7 Apr 1995, Nate Williams wrote:
> > > 
> > > It's in /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/man/*.
> > 
> >     Figures, it had to be the one incomplete archive on the mirror...
> > anyway, we wait for them to fix it then?
> 
> Nope, we are currently the only people using that code as far as I know.
> They abandoned it a long time ago because (in their words) 'man pages'
> are outdated and are now replaced by the much better 'info' docs.  I
> don't necessarily agree with it, but that's irrelevant.  We need to fix
> the problem since they aren't going to.

Might I suggest taking a serious look at the 4.4 BSD Lite version of
man.  It was much improved over the Net/2 version.  We would still
need to go do the gzip hacks (but those are FreeBSD hacks to gnu man
any way).

If GNU has obsoleted gnu man, maybe we should too!

> Nate


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