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<h4 class="subsection" id="Introduction-2">4.6.1 Introduction</h4>

<p>The <samp class="file">ms</samp> macros are the oldest surviving package for <code class="code">roff</code>
systems.<a class="footnote" id="DOCF7" href="groff.html_fot.html#FOOT7"><sup>7</sup></a>  While the <samp class="file">man</samp>
package was designed for brief reference documents, the <samp class="file">ms</samp> macros
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