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+#!/bin/sh
+
+# Reform all man pages to suppress "hyphen-used-as-minus-sign"
+# warnings of lintian by converting all unescaped "-" to "\-".
+
+while [ $# -ge 1 ] ; do
+    sed -e '/^[^.]/s/--/\\-\\-/g'\
+       -e '/^[^.]/ s/\([^\\]\)-/\1\\-/g'\
+       -e '/^-/ s/^-/\\-/g' < $1 > temp.man
+    mv temp.man $1
+    shift
+done