Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watvlsi.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!watnot!watvlsi!ksbszabo From: ksbszabo@watvlsi.UUCP (Kevin Szabo) Newsgroups: net.sources.bugs Subject: Please note that a troff comment is not written as '...' Message-ID: <2858@watvlsi.UUCP> Date: Tue, 7-Jan-86 23:32:34 EST Article-I.D.: watvlsi.2858 Posted: Tue Jan 7 23:32:34 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 8-Jan-86 05:04:25 EST Distribution: net Organization: VLSI Group, Univeristy of Waterloo Lines: 18 I have noticed a few MAN(1) pages that use this format for comments ( please ignore the leading >'s, I put them in for news' sake): >... This is a comment. Unfortunately, this isn't a comment. It just calls a non-existant null macro called '..'. Our troff generates warnings for these things, which is good for catching bizzarre text formatting bugs. Anyway, the real troff comment is: >.\" This is a comment. Thank you for listening. Kevin -- Kevin Szabo' watmath!watvlsi!ksbszabo (VLSI Group, U. of Waterloo, Ont., Canada)