groff alternative?

[Emanuel Strobl]

Am Freitag, 17. Juni 2005 21:23 schrieb David O'Brien:
[...]
> > This seems to be from src/contrib/groff?
>
> Yes.  But the issue is, why trade one piece of non-BSDL licensed code
> for another non-BSDL licensed piece of code??  What does changing from
> Groff to Solaris Troff actually buy us??  Groff is the standard in Roff.

Groff depends on c++ and is far to big for embedded systems. In fact its 
bigger than the complete man pages for the OS. (~10MB).
That's why I initially posted my question and Lyndon made the OpenSolaris 
suggestion. I'd like to have a simple possibility to view unformated man 
pages with reasonable sized tools. Preformatting man pages is not an 
option for me since packages install unformatted man pages and I don't 
know a suitable way to change that.

-Harry 

>  Even people writing books on systems with a native Troff install Groff
> to get a more powerful and easier to use Roff.
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