[TUHS] Who used *ROFF?

Doug McIlroy doug at cs.dartmouth.edu
Tue May 15 22:52:03 AEST 2018


> Wouldn't the -man macros have predated -ms?

Indeed. My error. 

The original -man package was quite weak. It got a major face
lift for v7 and once more at v9 or so. And further man-page
packages are still duking it out today. -ms has lots of rivals,
too, but its continued popularity attests to Mike Lesk's fine
sense of design.

Doug



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