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From: Joel “chesky” Salomon <JoelCSalomon@Gmail.com>
Date: Sun,  8 Oct 2006 20:37:44 -0400
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Subject: [9fans] pages in nroff
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I=E2=80=99ve been wondering; do the page boundaries in nroff serve any re=
al purpose anymore?  Probably 95% or more of the time, nroff is invoked b=
y man for display in acme or a terminal and the page headers don=E2=80=99=
t match anything on the screen anyway.  Would it break the ?roff model to=
 set a page length of =E2=80=9Cindefinite=E2=80=9D so it displays only on=
e header at the beginning and one footer at the end?  Where would I look =
if I wanted such customization?

--Joel