Re: man page standards

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From: Erik Naggum
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 00:47

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Nils-Peter Nelson <npn@alice.att.com> writes:
|
|   When Unix System Labs dropped troff, etc as a standard
|   part of System V, the vendors all went in different
|   directions. USL now sells troff separately as part of
|   Documenter's Workbench, and the latest releases (3.2 and
|   3.3) contain a "merged man" macro that includes definitions
|   used by BSD, Sun, Research and System V. There is no longer
|   a single standard.

The Committee for Common Man is working on this.  Contact Lar Kaufman
<lark@world.std.com>.  One of the goals of CFCM is to produce an SGML
document type definition for manual pages that will enable bidirectional
conversion between troff and the SGML document type.

Best regards,
</Erik>
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