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From: hwr@pilhuhn.de (Heiko W.Rupp)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Reformatting manpages when page in manx is newer than catx ?
Date: 20 Jul 1996 13:54:18 GMT
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Hi,

is there a way through man.conf to say that the man command should not
cat the page from catX but instead format that in manX, put it in catX
and then display it, when the source file in manX is newer than the
already formatted one in catX ?

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Heiko W.Rupp hwr@pilhuhn.de
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