From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 18 20:03:18 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id UAA02950 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 18 Apr 1995 20:03:18 -0700 Received: from glueserv1.umd.edu (glueserv1.umd.edu [129.2.70.69]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id UAA02944 for ; Tue, 18 Apr 1995 20:03:15 -0700 Received: from espresso.eng.umd.edu (espresso.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.13]) by glueserv1.umd.edu (8.6.10/8.6.4) with ESMTP id XAA19365; Tue, 18 Apr 1995 23:03:13 -0400 Received: (chuckr@localhost) by espresso.eng.umd.edu (8.6.10/8.6.4) id XAA12423; Tue, 18 Apr 1995 23:03:12 -0400 Date: Tue, 18 Apr 1995 23:03:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey To: "Mike O'Brien" cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Is 'groff' broken? In-Reply-To: <95Apr18.130006pdt.111105-1@aero.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 18 Apr 1995, Mike O'Brien wrote: > Was anything done to 'groff' on its way to the 2.0R release? > I tried to run off some man pages for a package whose man pages > were in -me format, and it didn't work bigtime. The -me macro > package in the tmac library seemed to have been renamed, and didn't > work all that well when it was renamed back. > > Mike O'Brien > I always had trouble, until I found that if I used the -a on troff turned out garbage. To get a good ascii output, you have to use -Tascii. When I used that, I always get a good output. ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 7608 Topton St. | New Carrollton, MD 20784 | I run Journey2 (Freebsd 2.0) and n3lxx (301) 459-2316 | (FreeBSD 1.1.5.1) and am I happy! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------