22 Sep
2017
22 Sep
'17
2:38 a.m.
On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 05:30:50PM -0700, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
Huh? What about the man pages?
And removing roff from BSD is gonna make me mad. I'm about to start
doing some work on BSD so maybe I'll make some noise. Or did the *roff
tools stick around?
On Sep 21, 2017, at 5:02 PM, Greg
'groggy' Lehey <grog(a)lemis.com> wrote:
There was a good reason for that. To my recollection, they hadn't
been maintained At All, and they were decades out of date. While they
were interesting for their historical content, as user/programmer
documentation they were useless at best and misleading or dangerous at
worst.
So throwing them out was easier than updating them.
As I recall, the real reason they got tossed was because some factions
wanted to remove the *roff tools from the base OS, meaning the viewable
versions of the documents could no longer be produced.