Fix manpage generation in sh shell and gen-man.sh cleanup #275
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sh and, consequently, dash interpret some escaped characters as control sequences, so an echo '\f' outputs a form feed. To avoid this problem in manpage generation, we have to escape "\f" sequences.
The use of $DATE was removed in 7a5499d, but I forgot to remove this logic from gen-man.sh.
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3a015f7 fix a escape char problem in sh (#274) and 710a5fc remove unused logic from gen-man script.