I'd check the mailing list archives for this, but I can't find them.
Mailing an "index" query to the grassp-request address yields nothing.
Given the refman.troff.Z from the FTP site, how do I convert it into
file per command format required in GISBASE?
I've worked out how to use nroff. 
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