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>And it's worth noting that minor incompatibilities like this just
>serve to annoy new users (which usually means users from linux-land).
>For example, it's annoying that BSD man can't read a manpage by
>specifying the full path to a filename (eg, man ./foo.1).

Yeah... Why is that? It seems like it would be awfully useful to read man 
pages without installing them. Also, though I haven't looked at the source, 
it _seems_ like it would be really easy to do. What's the drawback?

Many thanks in advance for your (no doubt) enlightening and entertaining 
answers,
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Evan Dower
Undergraduate, Computer Science
University of Washington
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