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RE: alternative man page reader?



On 13-May-99 Bradley Bell wrote:
> has anybody thought about packaging an alternative to the man-db/groff
> combination for reading man pages?  4mb is a lot for small systems, and
> reading man pages is pretty much a neccessity.
> 

Maybe I am wrong here but, how else are you gonna do it?  man pages are written
in roff format (think of it as old html).  Any other man reader would have to
speak roff as well.


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