From owner-freebsd-current Tue Nov 28 18:18:21 1995 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id SAA00516 for current-outgoing; Tue, 28 Nov 1995 18:18:21 -0800 Received: from hub.org (hub.org [199.166.238.138]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA00507 for ; Tue, 28 Nov 1995 18:18:12 -0800 Received: (from scrappy@localhost) by hub.org (8.7.1/8.7.1) id VAA17371; Tue, 28 Nov 1995 21:17:59 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 28 Nov 1995 21:17:52 -0500 (EST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Andrew Herdman cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: groff 1.10 released...breaks man In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 28 Nov 1995, Andrew Herdman wrote: > On Tue, 28 Nov 1995, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > > > > Hi... > > > > I just installed groff 1.10 on my *-current machine (ya, I like > > the new and [seemingly-]better stuff, that why I'm using *-current *grin*) > > and it breaks man. > > > > To fix, I ended up having to go into /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/man > > and modifying Makefile.inc so that it sets nroff is set to: > > > > nroff -Tascii -mandoc > > > > instead of > > > > nroff -Tascii -man > > > > Just as a suggestion for anyone else wanting to install > > the new groff, you may hit this problem, and want to modify/recompile > > man accordingly. > > wouldn't copying /usr/share/tmac/tmac.andoc to /usr/share/tmac/tmac.an fix > the problem as well? > Now this doesn't make sense...the files, on my machine, are identical, but the results of using -mandoc and -man are different So...I don't know why -man doesn't work and -mandoc does... Marc G. Fournier | POP Mail Telnet Acct DNS Hosting scrappy@hub.org | WWW Services Database Services | Knowledge, soon to be: | | Information and scrappy@ki.net | WWW: http://hub.org | Communications, Inc