From owner-freebsd-current Wed Aug 23 16:07:09 1995
Return-Path: current-owner
Received: (from majordom@localhost)
by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id QAA29506
for current-outgoing; Wed, 23 Aug 1995 16:07:09 -0700
Received: from gndrsh.aac.dev.com (gndrsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241])
by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA29500
for <current@freebsd.org>; Wed, 23 Aug 1995 16:07:06 -0700
Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by gndrsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id QAA10616; Wed, 23 Aug 1995 16:05:31 -0700
From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
Message-Id: <199508232305.QAA10616@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
Subject: Re: pedantic paul on compilation warnings
To: jfieber@grendel.csc.smith.edu (John Fieber)
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 1995 16:05:31 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: pst@shockwave.com, current@freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <199508232257.RAA06762@fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu> from "John Fieber" at Aug 23, 95 05:57:05 pm
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24]
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Length: 976
Sender: current-owner@freebsd.org
Precedence: bulk
>
> Paul Traina writes:
> > ...and most disturbingly, something has either gone very wrong with groff
> > and its macro packages, or we're getting really sloppy in the documentation.
>
> Either the documentation was bad from the beginning, or something
> is up with groff/macros. I don't think anybody has touched the docs.
> I'm not a [gtn]roff expert, (or even novice to be truthful) so I
> wouldn't bee too good at debugging. However, a quick scan would
> indicate that a great bulk of the warnings fall in just a few
> problem categories so it may not be quite as big of a job...
> (but then again, it might)
Major part of the problem here is some one replaced the 4.4BSD provided
macro sets with the groff ones. The groff ones are not up to snuff for
the BSD documentation, which used BSD specific hacks :-(.
--
Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com
Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD