Dell System V Release 4

David S. Herron david at twg.com
Sat Feb 9 10:42:07 AEST 1991


In article <3I59Z5G at xds13.ferranti.com> peter at ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>In article <14736 at uudell.dell.com> jrh at mustang.dell.com (James Howard) writes:
>> Pre-formatted.  AT&T says source to man-pages is like the rest of the
>> source, in that it requires a source license ($$$).  I'm sure if you send
>> AT&T enough dinero, they will be happy to send you the man source...
>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?

In faaaact .. I vaguely recall a posting in comp.sources.misc sometime
in the last few months by Henry Spencer which was *exactly* that.
(Written in shell+awk).

As I recall there was a comment at the beginning to the effect

	"I don't believe I did this."




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