Hi Branden, > see man pages as they would have formatted for Western Electric > Teletype machines, which printed to long spools of paper with 66 lines > to the nominal page.
In case it isn't obvious, it was normal for teletypes and line printers to print six lines per inch onto letter-height fan-fold paper perforated every eleven inches giving 66 lines per real page, not nominal. As long as the paper was positioned so it started printing just after a perforation, the page breaks occurred over a perforation. To allow for a bit of leeway, the page often started and ended with blank lines. -- Cheers, Ralph.
