Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2002 09:11:08 -0500 From: Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com> To: Paul Richards <paul@freebsd-services.com> Cc: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>, Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, developers@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Request for submissions: FreeBSD Bi-Monthly Development Status Report (fwd) Message-ID: <20020721141108.GA30472@luke.immure.com> In-Reply-To: <036201c22ebb$ba08dbe0$fd00000a@prawn> References: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1020718200957.16080B-100000@fledge.watson.org> <036201c22ebb$ba08dbe0$fd00000a@prawn>
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On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 01:32:13AM +0100, Paul Richards wrote: > > I wonder how true that is these days. The last time I used nroff was for my > masters thesis which was in 1990! Does anyone except man page maintainers > still use it in earnest? As I understand it, W. Richard Stevens wrote all of his books in troff. Of course he died a few years back so is no longer using it. But my guess is that were he still alive today, he'd still be using troff. Bob > > Paul. -- Bob Willcox Vital papers will demonstrate their vitality by bob@vieo.com spontaneously moving from where you left them to where Austin, TX you can't find them. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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