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- From: sherwood@space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford)
- Subject: Re: [386BSD] Source: hacked man that works on .Z man pages
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- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 17:33:21 GMT
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- Graham Toal (gtoal@ibmpcug.co.uk) wrote:
- : In article <RATINOX.92Nov19145122@splinter.coe.northeastern.edu> ratinox@meceng.coe.northeastern.edu writes:
- : >Ummm... why bother?
- : >
- : >Tom Christiansen's man program, written in perl, does it already.
- :
- : Because I don't have enough disk space for perl?
- :
- : G
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- But the space you'll save by being able to keep man pages compressed
- will more than make up for the space required for perl.
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