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Re: sun4 7.7B: man pages

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (cfields@MIT.EDU)
Wed Jul 6 17:54:28 1994

From: cfields@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 94 17:54:10 -0400
To: vrt@MIT.EDU
Cc: jweiss@MIT.EDU, testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: [2480] in testers

> The last thing I am going to run on the sun system packs before they 
> go into final production is catman.

Thinking about it, I'm not sure this is such a good idea. Then any weird
problems that may arise on the man-page formatting run can't be seen in
the release, and I've seen it happen that running catman and running
nroff -man don't return the same results... Also, apropos then is just
not available.

> The reason being that I have to do every single directory by hand.

Why don't you write a script?

Craig

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