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In article <an4o97FbfmgU1 at mid.individual.net>, billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
>In article <nospam-942E9C.15475402022013 at news.chingola.ch>,
>	Paul Sture <nospam at sture.ch> writes:
>> In article <an0qmpFduj7U4 at mid.individual.net>,
>>  billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) wrote:
>> 
>>> Just out of curiosity, I just looked at a couple of manpages on a
>>> FreeBSD system and none of them exhibited this straight-right-margin
>>> of which you speak.
>> 
>> uname -sr
>> FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE-p1
>> man bash
>> 
>> DESCRIPTION
>>   Bash  is  an  sh-compatible  command language interpreter that executes
>>   commands read from the standard input or from a file.  Bash also incor-
>>   porates useful features from the Korn and C shells (ksh and csh).
>> 
>>   Bash  is  intended  to  be a conformant implementation of the Shell and
>>   Utilities portion  of  the  IEEE  POSIX  specification  (IEEE  Standard
>>   1003.1).  Bash can be configured to be POSIX-conformant by default.
>> 
>> (edited to strip first 5 spaces of each line to avoid wrapping in this 
>> post)
>> 
>> Note how multiple spaces are distributed along the lines to get right 
>> justification.
>> 
>
>MAN(1)                  FreeBSD General Commands Manual                 MAN(1)
>
>NAME
>     man -- format and display the on-line manual pages
>
>SYNOPSIS
>     man [-adfhkotw] [-m arch[:machine]] [-p string] [-M path] [-P pager]
>         [-S list] [section] name ...
>
>DESCRIPTION
>     The man utility formats and displays the on-line manual pages.  This ver-
>     sion knows about the MANPATH and PAGER environment variables, so you can
>     have your own set(s) of personal man pages and choose whatever program
>     you like to display the formatted pages.  If section is specified, man
>     only looks in that section of the manual.  You may also specify the order
>     to search the sections for entries and which preprocessors to run on the
>     source files via command line options or environment variables.  If
>     enabled by the system administrator, formatted man pages will also be
>     compressed with the ``/usr/bin/gzip -c'' command to save space.
>
>
>Notice that this one doesn't.  :-)  Looks like it depends on who wrote the
>man page and being as we all know where bash originated, is it any wonder
>they did a bad job on the man page?

I just 'alias' man to 'man --nj'  (--no-justification)
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