On Mon, 8 Apr 1996, Bruce Perens wrote:
> The "man" program supports compressed man page source. If we can verify
> that _all_ of the manual viewers we use ("xman", etc.) can cope with
> compressed man page source, we can start installing them.
I think the man program in the old stable distribution choked on slackware
compressed man pages. I haven't been able to check on the new ?1.1
"release".
Alan Davis
adavis@sabas.kuentos.guam.net