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		narwally on Sept 9, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Is anybody still using Windows 95? > The really freaky thing is that you already have groff on your Mac -- it's installed by default. No way, you're right. And of course it has a very detailed and well formatted man page. The one for troff even has tables.

JdeBP on Sept 9, 2020 [–]

Little-known fact: groff (more particularly grotty) does colour, albeit that people have secretly turned this off for you. grotty's own man page is in fact in colour.

* http://jdebp.uk./Softwares/nosh/italics-in-manuals.html

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