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- From: stripes@pix.com (Josh Osborne)
- Subject: Re: ->386bsd! man-pages.Z ?
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- References: <1992Nov11.053352.29060@utkux1.utk.edu> <BxooJ6.B5E@flatlin.ka.sub.org> <JKH.92Nov16125945@whisker.lotus.ie>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 03:16:57 GMT
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- In article <JKH.92Nov16125945@whisker.lotus.ie> jkh@whisker.lotus.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes:
- > Get Tom Christiansen's perl rewrite of man. ftp to convex.com.
- >
- >Or, if you don't feel like hassling with perl, grab the BNR2 man port
- >I posted here a week or so back (I really should put it up on ref.ftp.com)..
-
- Unless the BNR2 man is unlike it's ancesters it will be far slower then
- the Perl man, and have far fewer fetures (and yes, many of the fetures
- are useful, many are useless). Of corse I don't know which is larger (including
- the perl executable, excluuding it, the perl man is smaller)...
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