From owner-cvs-all Thu Sep 23 16:34:22 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C5091507A; Thu, 23 Sep 1999 16:33:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id IAA52952; Fri, 24 Sep 1999 08:59:27 +0930 (CST) Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 08:59:27 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: "Rodney W. Grimes" Cc: Alexey Zelkin , committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/groff/nroff nroff.sh Message-ID: <19990924085927.I42271@freebie.lemis.com> References: <19990923200051.A20174@scorpion.crimea.ua> <199909232055.NAA00345@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <199909232055.NAA00345@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Thursday, 23 September 1999 at 13:55:19 -0700, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: >> hi, >> >> On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 09:10:06AM -0700, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: >>>> phantom 1999/09/23 06:40:29 PDT >>>> >>>> Modified files: >>>> contrib/groff/nroff nroff.sh >>>> Log: >>>> Learn nroff about -p and -t options. It allows to preprocess >>>> file with pic(1) and tbl(1). >> >>> Though I agree with the idea, I'm not sure how practical it is >>> to expect nroff to be able to actually display pic(1) output :-) nroff displays (or tries to display :-) pic output now. What I see here is just a short cut so that you can write 'nroff -p foo' instead of 'pic foo | nroff'. >> Hmmm... Reason for addition these option is my practic way -- I have few >> files which require preprocessing with pic or tbl. It's better for me >> to enter "nroff -p -ms xx.ms | less" than >> "groff -S -mtty-char -Tascii -p -ms xx.ms | less" > > So it was done simply as a short cut for you??? If so then I have > doubts about it beeing a commit canidate. If it does not emit the > proper white space areas for the pic and tbl it's a bug. I don't > like new bugs. I don't see that there would be any difference, though I haven't tested it. >>> Oh, and I hope this was sent back to the gnu maintaners, or it will be >>> yet another FreeBSD incompatibility :-(. >> >> Don't worry about groff package. Groff lost mainainer at middle of >> 1996 and still waits. > > You mean to tell me that the GNU project has no one tracking submissions > of changes to groff? That seems really odd... That surprises me too, especially since I'm sure I've seen updates after then. $ ftp ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/groff/ Connected to prep.ai.mit.edu. -rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 140890 Mar 3 1993 groff-1.06-1.07.diff.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 21048 Apr 19 1993 groff-1.07-1.08.diff.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 60885 Feb 19 1994 groff-1.08-1.09.diff.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 27050 Aug 25 1997 groff-1.10-1.11.diff.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 986431 Nov 26 1995 groff-1.10.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 1015028 Sep 8 15:02 groff-1.11.1.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 996936 Aug 25 1997 groff-1.11a.tar.gz Somebody's obviously doing something. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message