Re: groff alternative?

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Emanuel Strobl wrote:
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> Hello,
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> I'm using NO_CXX in my make.conf to strip down the base system to ~50MB=20
> including man pages. The only problem is that groff is missing if I don't=20
> build c++, and even if I build groff itself and the needed libstdc++ it cos=
> ts=20
> me about 10MB. If I just skip NO_CXX it's only 500k more, so I moved my=20
> patches to /dev/null.
> 
> Now I wrote a port for GNU/groff, but this also consumes 9974k by default a=
> nd=20
> I don't want to include patches into that port to strip down groff, if that=
> =20
> was possible at all.
> 
> Does anybody know any alternative for the groff part to view man pages simp=
> ly=20
> with the man command? It's horrible that the filter needs more space than a=
> ll=20
> the manpages itself!
> 
> And of course, even if I decide to leave system man pages outside the flash=
> =20
> card I still may want to read man pages of installed packages (which is=20
> another mountpoint on my installation, so there may be no space limit,=20
> depending on the card and additional drives)
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> =2DHarry

Years back "Phil Cockcroft" <phil_at_cockcroft.de> cc'd wrote a simple roff tool
for ascii formatting .rof stuff eg Unix manuals. Ran under dos & Unix.
Some files are dated 1994.
	http://berklix.com/~jhs/src/odds/c/unix4dos/nroff
du: 110K, doesnt need C++, Might need a little macro faking/ tweaking
to do modern BSD manuals.

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