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Subject: docs/15427: Some man pages print a blank first page
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>Number:         15427
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       Some man pages print a blank first page
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Dec 11 15:30:01 PST 1999
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Richard Smith
>Release:        FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
TRL Technology Ltd
>Environment:

>Description:
	All man pages which set the .Os macro to `FreeBSD' will print an 
	initial blank page 1, followed by the first section (`NAME') on page 2.

>How-To-Repeat:
	man -t 8 ppp | ghostview -

>Fix:
	Apply the following patch to src/contrib/groff/tmac/doc-common,v 1.17

	Caveat: I have no idea what the offending line is supposed to do.

--- doc-common.orig	Sat Dec 11 22:42:18 1999
+++ doc-common	Sat Dec 11 22:43:57 1999
@@ -230,7 +230,6 @@
 .\}
 .if "\\$1"FreeBSD" \{\
 .	if "\\$2"2"      .ds oS FreeBSD 2.0
-.	    ie \\n(.$==1        \c
 .	el .ie "\\$2"1.0"       \c
 .	el .ie "\\$2"1.1"       \c
 .	el .ie "\\$2"1.1.5"     \c

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:


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