Dell System V Release 4

Richard Foulk richard at pegasus.com
Thu Feb 7 21:50:12 AEST 1991


>You know, it occurs to me that a hack to convert nroff -manned output to
>nroff -man source might be relatively easy to do with a little shell,
>perl, awk, tcl, or whatever script. The macros are simple enough and the
>output predictable enough that it shouldn't be too hard. Randall?

I put a fair bit of work in on doing that, and found that it gets
pretty difficult in some places.  Like man pages that have tables
in them and such...  lots of other little gotchas too.


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Richard Foulk		richard at pegasus.com



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