Donna Garverick wrote:
>
> > Anyone figure out though why the man page does not work?
>
> yup (again :-)
>
> (...and don't point fingers at stan...he's only the porter) whois 'assumes'
> that nroff (what is 'nroff' anyhow?) is installed on your system.  for 3000
> folks, this means you've installed at least gnugroff.  i suspect that you also
> need gnucore as well (any idea mark k.?).  don't let this gnu requirement put
> you off.  you can always run whois (the binary).  having help is nice but not
> functionally necessary.  otoh, (thanks to mark's hard work...) the gnu packages
> install quickly and smoothly and give a great number of 'shell'
> toys...err...programs :-)
>

troff and nroff are part of traditional Unix text formatting tools that no
one can live without. Kind of like tdp on steroids.:-)

Didn't deroff make it to MPE/iX?
http://www.datafocus.com/docs/man1/deroff.1.htm

Richard
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