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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? What level are you? Post 52697 by dkaplowitz on Thursday 24th of June 2004 12:06:04 AM

06-24-2004

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Originally posted by norsk hedensk

eh dont think that is a fair one.

Well I tend to agree with you, but for a couple of other reasons:

a) it's seriously old school. For instance, I've never once used nroff or groff and have never had a reason to. This list, however insists that nroff is an essential part of one's progress along the path to becoming a UNIX wizard...almost some sort of rite of passage. Pheh! Unless I'm missing something really rudimentary (always a possibility with me), it's not that common anymore.

b) networking of any kind really isn't even mentioned in this list, and a modern UNIX pro has to know tons and tons of networking (at least according to 9 out of 10 UNIX jobs I see posted every day)

c) it's a C programmer's list more than anything else (i mean, c'mon, csh?)... knowledge of which was probably more valid >5 years ago, but isn't such a sine qua non anymore...

That's just my opinion though. I guess that b/c I came from GNU/Linux originally it's easy for me to see it this way. It could be b/c I'm also a newbie myself. (proven by the fact that I don't use nroff Smilie

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man.config

MAN.CONF(5)							File Formats Manual						       MAN.CONF(5)

NAME

       man.conf - configuration data for man

DESCRIPTION

       This  file is read by man(1) and contains (a) information on how to construct the search path for man, (b) full path names for various pro-
       grams like nroff, eqn, tbl etc. used by man, and (c) a list with uncompressors for files with a given extension.  An alternative version of
       this file can be specified with

	      man -C private_man.conf ...

       The  command  names  may be provided with options.  Useful options to nroff can be found in grotty(1).  For example, instead of the default
       line

	      NROFF /usr/bin/groff -mandoc -Tlatin1

       one may write

	      NROFF /usr/bin/groff -mandoc -Tlatin1 -P-u -P-b

       in order to suppress underlining and overstriking.

FILES

       @man_config_file@

SEE ALSO

       col(1), (g)eqn(1), (g)pic(1), groff(1), grotty(1), (g)refer(1), (g)tbl(1), less(1), man (1) and compress(1), gzip(1).

								    30 Mar 1994 						       MAN.CONF(5)