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From: rit@killdeer.Stanford.EDU (Jean-Francois Rit)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Man pages broken on the next, not tbl
Message-ID: <1991May3.231638.18872@neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 3 May 91 23:16:38 GMT
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Reply-To: rit@killdeer.Stanford.EDU (Jean-Francois Rit)
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In follow up to my previous posting and after some cues from tbl
authorities, I found the bug. Could somebody confirm this please?

- Description: man pages containing tables specified with tbl are
not formated correctly (in release 2.1). 

- Ex: man mf breaks with a "no specification" error message.
(Incidently, man tbl breaks before that because of a ill positioned
.TS at the beginning of a line).

- Reason: the man command runs man pages through tbl for formatting.
But the man pages in release 2.1 have *already* been run through tbl.
The second passage through tbl generates the error. 
For example, the Ultrix 4.1 release running on the machine from which
I type this message has original tbl inputs in the man pages. 

- Suggested work around: You can generate yourself the needed man
pages by running nroff -man tbl.1 > /usr/man/cat1/tbl.1 for example.
Less pedestrian but more space consuming is /usr/etc/catman 1 (from
su).

- Suggested fix: Put back the original pages.

J-F Rit