man pages...

[William A. Turnbow]

In article <7033 at cbmvax.UUCP> grr at cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) writes:
>Since man pages therefore "cost extra" and also require "nroff/troff"
>to format for display, some vendors have chosen to unbundle them or
>bundle them with their "text processing packages" which you have to buy
>to get nroff/troff support.
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Some vendors choose not to supply them at all -- specifically some
386 vendors.  Truely a loss in productivity and usefulness.  Imagine having
to dig out a manual every time you want to look something up and no
'man' command being available.  Ug.  

-wat-