Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2017 15:08:00 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> To: Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk> Cc: "Piotr P. Stefaniak" <pstef@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arch@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: I want to remove troff output support from indent(1) Message-ID: <CANCZdfq6=7i3w5yGwgQi22VddhCYAJo9nEHuZMOpH8Rr7BKxKA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <E6450466-1323-4A72-A78F-6BCCB99DC108@gid.co.uk> References: <20170226190654.GA23029@freefall.freebsd.org> <E6450466-1323-4A72-A78F-6BCCB99DC108@gid.co.uk>
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On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 1:59 PM, Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk> wrote: > Hi, > >> On 26 Feb 2017, at 19:06, Piotr P. Stefaniak <pstef@freebsd.org> wrote: >> >> indent, the C source reformatting tool, has a -troff option to produce >> roff output. >> >> I have a few issues with it: >> 1) it doesn't work. When I view the resulting file with nroff(1) piped >> to more(1) [etc] > > From man indent: > > "-troff Causes indent to format the program for processing by > troff(1)" > > NB troff. Likely it was always broken with nroff. I know that I used indent from this time with troff output to print things that looked OK. It had to be troff, because nroff didn't work with the laser printer that we had... I have no trouble removing it, but I have first hand experience with it working back in the day. Warner
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