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From: Jon Jenkins <jenkinsj@ozy.dec.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: printing man pages in ps format? not !
Date: 5 Nov 1995 04:24:45 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corp
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As was pointed out in private email I had
incorrectly read the man doc pages and
assumed that nroff doesnt get called if the
command line has a "-" on it or if you pipe
it to another formatter. What it doesnt use
in this case is the *page* formatter i.e.
more/less/pg etc.


Thanks and sorry.

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