Re: groff alternative?

Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
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> Install pre-rendered man pages instead of the mdoc source, and fake up
> a shell script that locates the appropriate page, decompresses it and
> pipes it to $PAGER.

At least some flavors of the "man" program will show cat pages even if the 
original NROFF version isn't present.  Does the one in FreeBSD not do this?

-- 
-Chuck