[Info-vax] Long uptime cut short by Hurricane Sandy

[David Froble]

Paul Sture wrote:
> 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.
> 

This is just "good intentions" with a "bad result".  I'm guessing the 
goal was to make the page look uniform and such.  But the cost ended up 
being harder to read.