On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 01:29:55PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 08:40:22PM -0800, Paul Mackinney wrote:
> > > # dpkg -i --force-downgrade 
>/var/cache/apt/archives/libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2_1%3a2.95.4-12_i386.deb
> > In general I knew that this was an option, but of course 'man dpkg' was
> > one of the commands that failed...
> 
> I'm fairly sure that man is written in C.
> rob@thebox> ldd /usr/bin/man
>         libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4001f000)
>         libdb3.so.3 => /usr/lib/libdb3.so.3 (0x40133000)
>         /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)

However, unless you're lucky enough to have the formatted page cached,
man relies on groff, which is written in C++.

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Colin Watson                                  [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]


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