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Date:      Tue, 28 Nov 1995 21:17:52 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>
To:        Andrew Herdman <andrew@whine.com>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: groff 1.10 released...breaks man
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.951128211523.15932C-100000@hub.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951128204236.240A-100000@why>

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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...


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