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Subject:	Re: man's behavior
From:	Ken Hirsch <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	Ken Hirsch <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Sat, 20 Apr 2002 12:09:09 -0400
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From: "Mark Wonsil" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
> man pages are formatted with a program called troff (written by James Clark,
> one of the people behind XML).  There is a win32 GNU version of troff called
> groff.  You can get it from:
> http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/groffl.htm.

The original Bell Labs troff was in 1973, when James Clark was only nine years old
(http://www.daemonnews.org/199903/history.html).  James Clark rewrote the entire
Unix typesetting package and donated as the open source groff
(http://www.jclark.com/bio.htm).

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