Madness[1]

firefly@charybdis:~ $ man perltoc | wc
Reformatting perltoc(1), please wait...
  12228   37991  385536

 firefly@charybdis:~ $ man gcc | wc
Reformatting gcc(1), please wait...
  10475   60878  494066

 firefly@charybdis:~ $ man perlfunc | wc
Reformatting perlfunc(1), please wait...
   6655   42081  345448

 firefly@charybdis:~ $ man mplayer | wc
Reformatting mplayer(1), please wait...
   6498   32376  297288

 firefly@charybdis:~ $ man smb.conf | wc
Reformatting smb.conf(5), please wait...
   6252   39674  290421

 firefly@charybdis:~ $ man ex | wc
Reformatting ex(1posix), please wait...
   5098   33570  235212

 firefly@charybdis:~ $ man bash | wc
Reformatting bash(1), please wait...
   4818   36418  275736

 firefly@charybdis:~ $ man perldiag | wc
Reformatting perldiag(1), please wait...
   4041   27130  192905

 firefly@charybdis:~ $ man lsof | wc
Reformatting lsof(8), please wait...
   2531   17406  132807

 firefly@charybdis:~ $ man 5 terminfo | wc
Reformatting terminfo(5), please wait...
   2090   13421  129703
firefly@charybdis:~ $

 firefly@charybdis:~ $ man gpg | wc
Reformatting gpg(1), please wait...
   2035   11708  102345

 firefly@charybdis:~ $ man sh | wc
Reformatting sh(1posix), please wait...
   1172    8335   60875

 firefly@charybdis:~ $ man cat | wc
Reformatting cat(1), please wait...
     74     218    1838

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[1] Rob Pike and Brian W. Kernighan, "Program Design in the UNIX Environment"
(Derived from the talk by Rob Pike, ``Cat -v considered harmful''), Bell Labs Tech. J., 1984.