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Re: Man pages

In message <lv1ogsn8s33.fsf@yakko.stacken.kth.se>
	so spake Magnus Ahltorp (map):

> As I have understood, man pages in OpenBSD are only shipped as
> preformatted text files. Why use a complicated format like troff for
> the source files when this is not used at all?

Surely you are not suggesting that we rewrite all the man pages
in some other format?  Not only would be take a huge amount of
time, it would mean that we would have to redo a man page whenever
we add source from one of the other free OS's or GNU.

This just doesn't make sense and besides, the mdoc man macros
are really pretty nice...

 - todd