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From: gordon@trsvax
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Man pages: Nroff not part of sy
Message-ID: <55300054@trsvax>
Date: Sun, 22-Sep-85 00:31:00 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep 22 00:31:00 1985
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Nf-From: trsvax!gordon    Sep 21 23:31:00 1985


Please do NOT post already-formatted manual pages, post the nroff source
for use with the -man macros.  Formatted manual pages have lots of
control character sequences in them, and there is probably lots of software
out there that horribly mangles control characters (yes, even just backspaces)
in news articles, both for people trying to read the article, and also for 
passing it on to the next system.  These aren't going to be of much use
to anyone unless you uuencode them or something (Ok, how many people
don't have uuencode?)

I don't know what software does it, but there seems to be plenty of it
out there.

					Gordon Burditt
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