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man was written by John Eaton (jwe@bevo.che.wisc.edu). He does not maintain man anymore - please do not bother him with remarks about the current version, which is rather different from the original one. man-1.2 was released by Zeyd M. Ben-Halim (zmbenhal@netcom.com). man-1.3, man-1.4* and man-1.5* were released by Andries Brouwer (aeb@cwi.nl). In man-1.5 Richard Verhoeven's man2html was added, together with some scripts by Michael Hamilton. This html stuff is still alpha (but it works - no negative reports so far). man-1.6 and versions following were released by Federico Lucifredi (flucifredi@acm.org). In man-1.6 Eric S. Raymond's browser-handoff functionality was added, with future minor versions planned to cleanup internationalization and cross platform support (Cygwin, solaris, and perhaps Win32). A bugfixing campaign is currently underway. The current maintainer is Federico Lucifredi (flucifredi@acm.org). The current version can usually be found at http://primates.ximian.com/~flucifredi/man/ a backup distribution site is located at http://people.fas.harvard.edu/~lucifred/man/ releases are also posted to the Metalab site regularly. Feedback from distribution packagers is very appreciated. There is a very different man program, also derived from John Eaton's original version (by Graeme W. Wilford) distributed under the name man_db, with version numbers like man_db-2.3.10. Do not confuse the two, they are mutually incompatible, although they perform nearly the same job. Man versions are codenamed for Bats, starting with 1.6e. Development releases have an 'RC-' suffix followed by the release candidate number. Versions released under the 'RC' label are not to be included in stable distributions (and indeed no one has been so far - do not be the first to screw up!).
