Re: [386BSD] Source: hacked man that works on .Z man pages

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From: Sherwood Botsford
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 17:33

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Graham Toal (gtoal@ibmpcug.co.uk) wrote:
: In article <RATINOX.92Nov19145122@splinter.coe.northeastern.edu> ratinox@meceng.coe.northeastern.edu writes:
: >Ummm... why bother?
: >
: >Tom Christiansen's man program, written in perl, does it already.
: 
: Because I don't have enough disk space for perl?
: 
: G
: -- 

But the space you'll save by being able to keep man pages compressed
will more than make up for the space required for perl.
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=> University of Alberta         Lab Manager, Space Physics Group <=         
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