Shaleh <shaleh@livenet.net>: > Maybe I am wrong here but, how else are you gonna do it? man pages are written > in roff format (think of it as old html). Any other man reader would have to > speak roff as well. Manual pages are actually written in a new language, defined using the troff macro language. It is much simpler than the real troff language. Many years ago Henry Spencer (of C News fame) wrote an AWK program that interpreted manual page formatting and produced text output. Someone later wrote a C version of that, which was much faster. I vaguely remember using them when Linux was young and I shared a 109 megabyte hard disk between three operating systems and manual pages were a luxury. -- Stupid little mailer under construction, sorry for any problems.
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