Quoting Jeremy C. Reed (02-May-01 23:57:01):

> On 2 May 2001, Georges Heinesch wrote:
> [ everything clipped ]

> man man > foo # works at least with 1.5.1_ALPHA and probably older

Yes, it works fine with NetBSD 1.5.

> Building the formatted manpages (cat) in one step should work.

Do you mean ... transforming all man files to cat files in one step?

> It seems like in the past with other other operating systems
> (different man), this didn't work. (But a simple "-c" added to man
> should make it work.)

# man man > /tmp/foo1
# man -c man > /tmp/foo2
# diff foo1 foo2
#

-> no difference. "-c" just omits to spawn more(1).

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