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Date:      Thu, 28 Apr 2005 17:37:59 -0400
From:      Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
To:        =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: groff alternative?
Message-ID:  <427157B7.6040203@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <86k6mo0xmh.fsf@xps.des.no>
References:  <200504262010.49509@harrymail> <86k6mo0xmh.fsf@xps.des.no>

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Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
[ ... ]
> Install pre-rendered man pages instead of the mdoc source, and fake up
> a shell script that locates the appropriate page, decompresses it and
> pipes it to $PAGER.

At least some flavors of the "man" program will show cat pages even if the 
original NROFF version isn't present.  Does the one in FreeBSD not do this?

-- 
-Chuck



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