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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: nroff -s in background
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Date: Mon, 23-Jul-84 17:06:54 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 23 17:06:54 1984
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Nroff has been fixed so that it checks properly for errors and end-of-file
when reading a character to tell it to wake up from a -s wait.  It used to
ignore them; now it terminates when it gets one.  This has the side effect
that running an nroff -s in the background yields only the first page of
output, which is probably the right thing for it to do.  (Arguably it
should yield no output, since -s is definitely meaningless in a non-
interactive environment, but the way -s is implemented gives us the first
page regardless.)
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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