[net.text] man command, correction about 4.3 features

rdh@sun.uucp (Robert Hartman) (08/22/86)

Glenn Skinner sent me this:

>       An inaccuracy in your posting: the 4.3 version of man doesn't support
>       preprocessor specifications.  I gave it back to UCB, but they didn't
>       include it in 4.3 -- perhaps it was too close to the release date, I
>       dunno.  The SysV version of man, however, does support such
>       specifications -- that's where I got the idea (well, actually from
>       SysIII).

Thanks, Glenn.  I thought that Berkeley had accepted it for 4.3.  Perhaps
its time to consider standardizing the man command as well.  

-bob.