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In article <1992May20.170700.554@henson.cc.wwu.edu>
phil@henson.cc.wwu.edu (Phil Nelson) writes:

> There was a file on prep called "man-1.0.tar.Z".  It was a man replacement
> program Copyrighted by John W. Eaton.  (I still have a copy.)  It was
> placed under the GNU GPL.  Since the Copyright was not assigned to the
> FSF, that may be why "FSF did not distribute it."

Actually, it was never even submitted to the FSF because I assumed
that they wouldn't want it, given that all the documentation for GNU
is to be written in TeXInfo.  I originally wrote it to replace the
braindead version of man found on most Ultrix systems, and it wasn't
until after I released the first version that I found out about Tom
Christiansen's Perl version.  After I saw his list of features, I
thought everyone would begin to use his programs, but some people
still use mine.  :-)

I have no idea who put it on prep, but that's probably why some people
started referring to it as `GNU man 1.0'.  The README file from the
first version said

  It is distributed under the terms of the GNU copyleft which is
  described in the file COPYING.

But nothing else about GNU.  After seeing that some people were
referring to it as a part of GNU, I changed the README for version 1.1
to read 

  This program is not a GNU product but it is distributed under the
  terms of the GNU copyleft which is described in the file COPYING.

so as not to give the GNU project a bad name...

> In looking around, I found what looks like the most recent version.
> "man-1.1, August 91"  (man-1.0 was Jan 91)

Version 1.1 fixed a few bugs and added a lot of new features, but it
still needs some work.  I haven't had time to do anything with it
lately, but if there is very much interest, I may fix up a few things
and release a new version.

> It can be found on "ward.che.utexas.edu" in the directory "pub/unix".

Please connect to `ftp.che.utexas.edu' instead.

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