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-In his wisdom RMS decided that people need no man pages
-when they can use GNU's beautiful info system.
-Unfortunately, everybody I know greatly prefers man pages.
-
-Since GNU actively non-maintains man pages, and inserts
-text to the effect that you should not be reading them
-in each man page that they already have, it seems that
-outside maintenance of man pages for the GNU utilities
-is required.
-
-The fileutils-3.16 man pages found here have been derived
-from those in fileutils-3.16-man-0.4.tar.gz
-(as produced by Ragnar Hojland Espinosa and A. Wik, and
-found on ftp://mail1.bet1.puv.fi/incoming/)
-by adding information on what POSIX says about these
-utilities. This is very useful if you have to write
-scripts that should be portable.
-
-There is also a time.1 man page here, inspired by
-kromJx@crosswinds.net.
-
-Andries