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Date:      Thu, 20 Jan 2011 10:02:56 -0800
From:      Charlie Kester <corky1951@comcast.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How to adjust man page line length [SOLVED]
Message-ID:  <20110120180255.GA27690@comcast.net>
In-Reply-To: <CE11ED0F-7ED5-446B-B428-6E1AA19C0233@hiwaay.net>
References:  <20110118034037.GF90952@weller-fahy.com> <xeia7he29lxq.fsf@kobe.laptop> <20110118182918.GA14251@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> <xeia1v49jmub.fsf@kobe.laptop> <20110120045145.GL90952@weller-fahy.com> <CE11ED0F-7ED5-446B-B428-6E1AA19C0233@hiwaay.net>

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On Wed 19 Jan 2011 at 21:36:19 PST David Kelly wrote:
>
>On Jan 19, 2011, at 10:51 PM, David J. Weller-Fahy wrote:
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>[...]
>
>> 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.

Is this a consequence of the move to mdocml instead of groff?



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