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Re: man to texinfo

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From: Rich Braun
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1991 21:41
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maneesh@bullyrag.ugcs.caltech.edu (Maneesh Sahani) writes:
>The program I envision would take a man tree (say /usr/man) and make a
>top [info] node with a menu that looked like:

Sounds like a positively useful thing.  Indeed, it would be positively
useful if someone would contribute a usable "man page" reader program
to the net.community: my network of SCO and AIX systems contains no
"nroff", "troff", or "groff".  Yet people persist in using "nroff" as
the de facto standard for Unix documentation in Internet source code
distributions.  Building "groff" is a task for wizards only, and it
can't be done on the IBM RS/6000.

(Or can it?)

-rich
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From: richb@kronos.com (Rich Braun)
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Subject: Re: man to texinfo
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