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Date:      Fri, 24 Sep 1999 10:33:44 +0400
From:      Alexey Zelkin <phantom@cris.net>
To:        "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>, ache@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        Dmitrij Tejblum <tejblum@arc.hq.cti.ru>, Alexey Zelkin <phantom@cris.net>, committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/groff/nroff nroff.sh
Message-ID:  <19990924103343.B28781@scorpion.crimea.ua>
In-Reply-To: <199909240056.RAA01099@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
References:  <199909232307.DAA05574@tejblum.pp.ru> <199909240056.RAA01099@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>

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hi,

On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 05:56:32PM -0700, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:

> > I regulary look into /usr/share/doc/08.sendmailop/paper.ascii.gz. It is 
> > effectively created by nroff with pic and eqn preprocessors. The result 
> > looks funny somewhere, but still quite useful.
> > 
> > (I just want to give you both a fact to consider, no more).
> 
> An erronious fact at that :-(
> 
> The paper.ascii.gz files are created by:

[dd]
 
> Or if you can't see it in the above:
> 
> groff -mtty-char -Tascii -e -p -me -o1-
> 
> It is created by with groff directly, not with nroff's wrapper.  It would
> be nice if the glitches casued by -e and -p could be fixed up though when
> the output format is -Tascii -mtty-char.

------------------------------------------------------------------------
revision 1.16
date: 1995/01/17 21:36:06;  author: ache;  state: Exp;  lines: +2 -2
Modify prev. change, pass internal args directly to groff,
if PRINTER == ascii, because nroff shell script strip off
some groff flags
------------------------------------------------------------------------
revision 1.15
date: 1995/01/17 21:27:30;  author: ache;  state: Exp;  lines: +5 -1
Call nroff, if PRINTER == ascii
------------------------------------------------------------------------

Is this commit logs on bsd.doc.mk enough to prove that you argument isn't
correct. And I was right with my commit ? Anyway -- it would be interesting
to listen ache's opinions. If Andrey don't agree to my commit I'll back out it.

Peace ? :-)

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