From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 26 17:29:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from venera.isi.edu (venera.isi.edu [128.9.176.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E74C61547A for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 17:29:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from faber@ISI.EDU) Received: from ted.isi.edu (ted.isi.edu [128.9.160.104]) by venera.isi.edu (8.8.7/8.8.6) with ESMTP id RAA15498 for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 17:29:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from ted.isi.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ted.isi.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA14147 for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 17:29:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from faber@ted.isi.edu) Message-Id: <200001270129.RAA14147@ted.isi.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Y2K: groff in the tree out of date X-Url: http://www.isi.edu/~faber Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 17:29:19 -0800 From: Ted Faber Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii The groff in 3.4-stable is out of date. Specifically, it's version 1.11, while 1.12 has the Y2K bugs allegedly fixed. Current documents using ms and the \*(DY string (current date) do some time travel. You can see this with: $ groff -ms -Tascii < .pl 1i > \*(DY > END :2: warning: `cov*first-page-init' not defined 26 January 1900 Should I submit a PR on this? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use Charset: noconv iQA/AwUBOI+fb2lM93/mX/l7EQJqZwCgsL3cGJM4bRIPWAoXYs3svMKqZCUAn1/w p5gUTdj2LK8un+sZKFbOeKuP =GxN3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message