Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2017 08:27:27 +0100 From: "Piotr P. Stefaniak" <pstef@freebsd.org> To: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> Cc: "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arch@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: I want to remove troff output support from indent(1) Message-ID: <20170227072727.GC23029@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20170226234917.GB23029@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <20170226190654.GA23029@freefall.freebsd.org> <E6450466-1323-4A72-A78F-6BCCB99DC108@gid.co.uk> <CANCZdfq6=7i3w5yGwgQi22VddhCYAJo9nEHuZMOpH8Rr7BKxKA@mail.gmail.com> <20170226232855.zkvymewnnbjhhfqk@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> <20170226234917.GB23029@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On 2017-02-27 00:49:17, Piotr P. Stefaniak wrote: >The troff output was invented at Sun and the online docs for some Of course I meant the indent's feature. >post-SunOS operating system include this: >The usual way to get a troffed listing is with the command > indent -troff program.c | troff -mindent > >The indent manpage in FreeBSD 1.0 already lacks that information and >troff -mindent complains about not being able to find the macro file. >So I guess the file did exist on SunOS and was supposed to be imported >into 4.3BSD together with the feature, but wasn't. According to http://www.mit.edu/afs.new/net/dev/dev/system/sun4m_412/rsp.01/usr/share/man/man1/indent.1 .B /usr/share/lib/tmac/tmac.indent troff macro package for .RB ` "indent \-troff" ' But the file is missing from a Solaris 5.10 where I happen to have an account. From what I can see, tmac.indent was never added to 4.3BSD or FreeBSD. Internet search results suggest that Sun OS might be the only OS to have the file.home | help
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