Manual pages, nroff, makewhatis, and gman

[TP Monks]

In <91165.092700SCHDAVZ at YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu> SCHDAVZ at YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (Dave Schweisguth) writes:

>Our Personal Iris currently has no 'nroff'; the purchaser didn't realize we
>needed it. We've been nroffing things on another local Unix system (a Convex

You and many others!

>ask the net first. We're probably going to get 'nroff' eventually, but I'd like
>to know what's going on in the meantime. Thanks for any input ...

When you say 'get' if you mean 'buy', try geting awf for free from
fresnel.stanford.edu.  This will do nroff, neqn, and tbl.

Tim Monks
Southampton University