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Date:      Wed, 4 Aug 2004 07:53:40 -0500
From:      Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com>
To:        Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: man(1)
Message-ID:  <20040804125340.GA2718@luke.immure.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040804124756.GA25436@ip.net.ua>
References:  <BAY8-F72aIQJxKgEmti001189bf@hotmail.com> <20040804042951.GA1371@online.fr> <20040804073012.GA685@arthur.nitro.dk> <20040804073532.GA22846@ip.net.ua> <20040804115343.GC41839@eddie.nitro.dk> <20040804121525.GA2273@luke.immure.com> <20040804124756.GA25436@ip.net.ua>

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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.

-- 
Bob Willcox                   Serocki's Stricture:
bob@immure.com                  Marriage is always a bachelor's last option.
Austin, TX



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