From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jul 21 7:11:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8805937B405 for ; Sun, 21 Jul 2002 07:11:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from maul.immure.com (maul.immure.com [207.8.42.72]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80E0143E58 for ; Sun, 21 Jul 2002 07:11:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bob@immure.com) Received: (from root@localhost) by maul.immure.com (8.11.5/8.11.2) id g6LEBDX77449 for hackers@freebsd.org; Sun, 21 Jul 2002 09:11:13 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from bob@immure.com) Received: from luke.immure.com (luke.vieo.com [10.1.132.3]) by maul.immure.com (8.11.5/8.11.2) with ESMTP id g6LEB9c77199; Sun, 21 Jul 2002 09:11:09 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from bob@immure.com) Received: (from root@localhost) by luke.immure.com (8.12.5/8.12.3) id g6LEB9bu031869; Sun, 21 Jul 2002 09:11:09 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from bob@luke.immure.com) Received: from luke.immure.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by luke.immure.com (8.12.5/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g6LEB9V6031844; Sun, 21 Jul 2002 09:11:09 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from bob@luke.immure.com) Received: (from bob@localhost) by luke.immure.com (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g6LEB8cm031843; Sun, 21 Jul 2002 09:11:08 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2002 09:11:08 -0500 From: Bob Willcox To: Paul Richards Cc: Robert Watson , Terry Lambert , Julian Elischer , developers@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Request for submissions: FreeBSD Bi-Monthly Development Status Report (fwd) Message-ID: <20020721141108.GA30472@luke.immure.com> Reply-To: Bob Willcox References: <036201c22ebb$ba08dbe0$fd00000a@prawn> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <036201c22ebb$ba08dbe0$fd00000a@prawn> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-scanner: scanned by Inflex 1.0.12.3 on luke.immure.com X-scanner: scanned by Inflex 0.1.5c+ on maul.immure.com Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 01:32:13AM +0100, Paul Richards wrote: > > 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? As I understand it, W. Richard Stevens wrote all of his books in troff. Of course he died a few years back so is no longer using it. But my guess is that were he still alive today, he'd still be using troff. Bob > > Paul. -- Bob Willcox Vital papers will demonstrate their vitality by bob@vieo.com spontaneously moving from where you left them to where Austin, TX you can't find them. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message