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From: bl@infovax.UUCP (Bj|rn Larsson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: new nroff (what's the story)
Message-ID: <328@infovax.UUCP>
Date: 6 Jan 90 05:18:19 GMT
References: <7436@nigel.udel.EDU>
Reply-To: bl@infovax.UUCP (Bj|rn Larsson)
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In article <7436@nigel.udel.EDU> Leisner.Henr@xerox.com (Marty) writes:
>I'm trying to look at the man page on my sun386i without success.  ditroff
>crunched on it for 2 minutes without finishing and produced over 2
>megabytes of output.
>
>I used nroff -man and it seemed to send it into an infinite loop.
>
>I finally found tmac.an (in the nroff.mail) file and tried that -- it
>didn't produce anything better than the raw roof file.
>What's going on here?
>
Well, I grabbed the 1.5.0 nroff, put it on (horror!) DOS, wrote my own
makefile and made it. Essentially no changes to the code - I think I
changed some of the defaults - and everything worked very nicely with
'nroff -man nroff.1'.

Maybe you did not put the tmac.an file in /usr/lib/tmac, or did not set
the TMACDIR environment variable? I mean, if it took me two hours to get
it running under DOS, including reading the unformatted man page... there
cannot be any problems really. BUT: many of the commands etc described
in the man page are actually not implemented. This does not only apply
to those that are marked as 'extension' or 'unimplemented' in the man
page.

No, I haven't done it on MINIX, since I only have a semiworking 1.2
running on floppies...

							Bjorn

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