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Re: Why is the author of ps(1) such a moron?



On Thu, Nov 25, 1999 at 11:09:31PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> Am I the only one thinking the man page of ps(1) in potato really needs
> to be fixed?
> 
> .\" Man page for ps.
> .\" Quick hack conversion by Albert Cahalan, 1998.
> .\" Licensed under version 2 of the Gnu General Public License.
> .\"
> .\" This man page is a horrid hack because *roff sucks.
> .\" The whole system is way obsolete. The internal header
> .\" stuff must die, and will when I figure out how to kill it.
> .\" I've already killed the wasteful left margin and screwy
> .\" old perfect justification. Gross! You'd think someone
> .\" invented this crap in 1973. Oh yeah, they did. Sorry.

But its true
*roff sucks


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