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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew
Subject: Re: rofftext...please be gentle with me
Message-ID: <2888@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 3 Feb 90 03:10:16 GMT
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>The "-ms" macro package here is the standard SunOS 4.0.3 one;
>differences between the various "-ms" packages may account for these
>problems.

In fact, it probably *does* account for it, in combination with a
"rofftext" bug.  The document

	.de XX
	.de YY
	\\..
	..
	.XX
	Hello, world

when run with "rofftext" with no extra arguments (i.e., no "-ms")
produces an empty document, with "Hello, world" nowhere in it.  I think
"rofftext" can't cope with macros that define macros, as "XX" does
there, and as do several macros in the SunOS 4.0.3 "-ms" macro package
(and perhaps in other variants of "-ms" as well).