Documentation in this directory has already been formatted with nroff. While the sources are available, some are written with -mm and some with -ms. Since USG systems have only -mm and V7 and 4BSD has only -ms, about the only portable way to write documents is to use the -man macros. (No thanks!) To make the documents usable to everyone, they are distributed pre-formatted. Overstriking is done with carriage return (rather than backspace) which seems to work better on some line printers.