Date: Sun, 7 May 2000 11:06:04 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On 5 May 2000, Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:

> I know of at least one other
> DOS-based solution, called 'cawf', that can replace groff for the
> formatting stage, almost perfectly.

Actually, CAWF is quite lame, it fails to format in many cases where 
Groff doesn't even print a warning message.

So I think everybody should use Groff.  That's why the FAQ no longer 
recommends CAWF as a solution to formatting man pages.

Btw, Emacs 21, when released, will include a package that formats man 
pages entirely in Emacs Lisp.  So Emacs users will not need any external 
programs at all, not even `man'.