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Date:      Wed, 29 Nov 1995 07:27:08 -0600 (CST)
From:      Gary Clark II <gclarkii@main.gbdata.com>
To:        andrew@whine.com (Andrew Herdman)
Cc:        scrappy@hub.org, current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: groff 1.10 released...breaks man
Message-ID:  <199511291327.HAA02751@main.gbdata.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951128204236.240A-100000@why> from "Andrew Herdman" at Nov 28, 95 08:43:57 pm

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Hello,

> > 	I just installed groff 1.10 on my *-current machine (ya, I like
> > the new and [seemingly-]better stuff, that why I'm using *-current *grin*)
> > and it breaks man.
> > 
> > 	To fix, I ended up having to go into /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/man
> > and modifying Makefile.inc so that it sets nroff is set to:
> > 
> > 	nroff -Tascii -mandoc
> > 
> > 	instead of
> > 
> > 	nroff -Tascii -man
> > 
> > 	Just as a suggestion for anyone else wanting to install
> > the new groff, you may hit this problem, and want to modify/recompile
> > man accordingly.
> 
> wouldn't copying /usr/share/tmac/tmac.andoc to /usr/share/tmac/tmac.an fix 
> the problem as well?
> 
> Andrew
> 

The problem is that you wiped out your tmac.an file.  This controls which
macros get used (doc or groff_an). 


Gary



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