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Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 12:15:43 +1030
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@ve7tcp.ampr.org>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: troff papers missing
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On Tue,  3 March 1998 at 11:54:17 -0700, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
> Once upon a time (4.4Lite) the doc distribution contained a
> troff reference paper in the doc tree. This seems to be missing
> from 3.0. Am I blind, or was it removed? If it was nuked, why?

It was AT&T copyright.

> (Troff reference manuals are getting as rare as original copies
> of the annotated 6th edition source ...)

That, too, may change soon.  SCO is planning to license 16-bit UNIX in
source form for private use.

Greg

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