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Date:      Tue, 22 Oct 1996 14:10:14 PDT
From:      Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Cc:        kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de
Subject:   Re: getopt(1) man page woodoo
Message-ID:  <96Oct22.141020pdt.177529@crevenia.parc.xerox.com>

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>Somebody didn't know troff.  Make this \&-, and it will work.

Er, that's a hyphen after a zero-size character.  If you want a dash
then you mean \-.

I can't get FreeBSD's nroff -man to print bold dashes at all;

.B --
.B \-\-
.B \&-\&-
.B \& --

all produce nothing.  (and all produce "--" or " --" using 4.2 nroff -man).
However,

.Fl -
.Fl \-
.Fl \&-

all produce "--" .

  Bill



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