[Groff] Re: manual pages and terminal width

[Andries . Brouwer]

>> One possible solution to the problem it creates
>> is to create/look for catpages only if the respective option
>> to set the line length from man(1) was not used.

> Indeed. man-db already behaves this way, to make sure sanity is
> preserved. I think Andries' man(1) no longer uses cat pages?

man(1) supports cat pages, of course, sometimes nothing else exists

but it will not store cat pages if they were made with unusual
line length

Andries