Re: Manpage interpreter

From: David Benfell (co_at_trek.parts-unknown.org)
Date: 12/24/04

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    Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 22:04:41 -0800
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    On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 20:02:49 -0800, Joshua Tinnin wrote:
    >
    > I don't think
    > there is any such thing as an interpreter, per se, but if there is
    > something confusing about a manpage, you can ask.

    It's even been known to happen that man pages can get revised (though
    I think my experience with this was with OpenBSD). 

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David Benfell, LCP
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