On Fri, 2005-Apr-29 00:55:41 +0100, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: >Since no-one had a sensible answer, why not try a version of original >nroff from say 4.3BSD. Hunting around, I found this: >http://www.tuhs.org/. Hopefully the most used macros will have stayed >the same. Actually, they haven't. The FreeBSD man pages are written using mdoc(7), not man(7). The current version of mdoc(7) in FreeBSD needs long names - which are supported by ditroff and groff but not the older nroff. I don't believe the nroff in either 4.3BSD or 2.11BSD can support long names and neither include a mdoc(7) implementation. 4.4BSD includes mdoc(7) but also GNU groff - though a quick look at the tmac.mdoc* files suggests that it might work with an old (4.3 or 2.11) nroff. If you're only worried about ports, most of those will use man(7), not mdoc(7) - though there are probably a few that use mdoc(7). -- Peter JeremyReceived on Fri Apr 29 2005 - 18:00:41 UTC
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