Re: man(1)

From: Bob Willcox <bob_at_immure.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 07:53:40 -0500
On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 03:47:56PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 07:15:25AM -0500, Bob Willcox wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 01:53:44PM +0200, Simon L. Nielsen wrote:
> > > So the most correct command would be:
> > > 
> > > groff -Wall -Tascii -te -mtty-char -man
> > 
> > What's wrong with:
> > 
> > nroff -man
> > 
> In most cases it will do, but nroff(1) doesn't provide an option to tell
> groff(1) to preprocess with eqn(1), and some manpages require preprocessing
> with it.

Ah, I see. Thanks.

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Bob Willcox                   Serocki's Stricture:
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