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Date:      Wed, 19 Jan 2011 23:36:19 -0600
From:      David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>
To:        "David J. Weller-Fahy" <dave-lists-freebsd-questions@weller-fahy.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How to adjust man page line length [SOLVED]
Message-ID:  <CE11ED0F-7ED5-446B-B428-6E1AA19C0233@hiwaay.net>
In-Reply-To: <20110120045145.GL90952@weller-fahy.com>
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On Jan 19, 2011, at 10:51 PM, David J. Weller-Fahy wrote:

[...]

> That did the job, but made `man -k`, which my fingers find familiar,
> unusable.  I remembered you were running a CURRENT snapshot, so figured
> I'd check the difference between man in HEAD and 8.1-RELEASE... WOW!
> The man in HEAD is now a shell script.


In ancient times man was originally a shell script. What is old is new again.

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David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@HiWAAY.net
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Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.






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