MAN pages in nroff format

[John D. McCalpin]

>>>>> On 20 Aug 90 17:05:10 GMT, ciemo at bananaPC.wpd.sgi.com (Dave Ciemiewicz) said:

> As for the Documentor's Work Bench requirement for unformatted manual pages,
> it is still very true.  If you want to put unformatted manual pages on your
> IRIS and have the man command on the IRIS format them, you must have nroff on
> that IRIS which implies that you must have the Documentor's Work Bench on
> that IRIS.  This is true if you want a solution from Silicon Graphics.

Another option is groff (GNU roff) from the Free Software Foundation.
It requires g++ in order to compile, which in turn requires gcc.  I am
still at the second stage (installing g++), so I can't vouch for how
well groff works.  It is supposed to replace nroff, troff, and psroff....
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