Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 23:30:54 GMT From: Richard Smith <richard@jezebel.demon.co.uk> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: docs/15427: Some man pages print a blank first page Message-ID: <199912112330.XAA01567@jezebel.demon.co.uk>
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>Number: 15427
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: Some man pages print a blank first page
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Sat Dec 11 15:30:01 PST 1999
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Richard Smith
>Release: FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
TRL Technology Ltd
>Environment:
>Description:
All man pages which set the .Os macro to `FreeBSD' will print an
initial blank page 1, followed by the first section (`NAME') on page 2.
>How-To-Repeat:
man -t 8 ppp | ghostview -
>Fix:
Apply the following patch to src/contrib/groff/tmac/doc-common,v 1.17
Caveat: I have no idea what the offending line is supposed to do.
--- doc-common.orig Sat Dec 11 22:42:18 1999
+++ doc-common Sat Dec 11 22:43:57 1999
@@ -230,7 +230,6 @@
.\}
.if "\\$1"FreeBSD" \{\
. if "\\$2"2" .ds oS FreeBSD 2.0
-. ie \\n(.$==1 \c
. el .ie "\\$2"1.0" \c
. el .ie "\\$2"1.1" \c
. el .ie "\\$2"1.1.5" \c
>Release-Note:
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