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From: "Paul Richards" <paul@freebsd-services.com>
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Subject: Re: Request for submissions: FreeBSD Bi-Monthly Development Status  Report (fwd)
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 01:32:13 +0100
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Watson" <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
To: "Terry Lambert" <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Cc: "Julian Elischer" <julian@elischer.org>; <developers@FreeBSD.org>;
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Subject: Re: Request for submissions: FreeBSD Bi-Monthly Development Status
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> tags, removal of a necessary tag, etc.  If I had to guess, asking for
> nroff/mdoc submissions would result in a slightly higher success rate, as
> I suspect developers have a bit more experience with it, and also don't
> have to install a port to get syntax checking.

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?

Paul.


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