We first made the #curl build use #nroff for building the hugehelp file in December 1998, for curl 5.2. This makes "curl -M" work.

Now, I'm working on a change that finally removes nroff from the curl build process: github.com/curl/curl/pull/1304…

docs: ascii version of manpage without nroff by bagder · Pull Request #13047 · curl/curl

create ascii version of the manpage without nroff build src/tool_hugegelp.c from the ascii manpage move the the manpage and the ascii version build to docs/cmdline-opts remove all use of nroff fro...

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