Date: Tue, 18 Apr 1995 23:03:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu> To: "Mike O'Brien" <obrien@antares.aero.org> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Is 'groff' broken? Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950418230154.12377A-100000@espresso.eng.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <95Apr18.130006pdt.111105-1@aero.org>
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On Tue, 18 Apr 1995, Mike O'Brien wrote: > Was anything done to 'groff' on its way to the 2.0R release? > I tried to run off some man pages for a package whose man pages > were in -me format, and it didn't work bigtime. The -me macro > package in the tmac library seemed to have been renamed, and didn't > work all that well when it was renamed back. > > Mike O'Brien > I always had trouble, until I found that if I used the -a on troff turned out garbage. To get a good ascii output, you have to use -Tascii. When I used that, I always get a good output. ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 7608 Topton St. | New Carrollton, MD 20784 | I run Journey2 (Freebsd 2.0) and n3lxx (301) 459-2316 | (FreeBSD 1.1.5.1) and am I happy! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------
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