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From: mh AT mike DOT franken DOT de (Michael Hirmke)
Subject: Re: man package: patch _against_ <AD> at word breaks
18 Nov 1998 04:38:00 -0800 :
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Vince Rice [vrice AT solidrocksystems DOT com] wrote:

>Well, it's *almost* that simple <g>. Now that I've had a chance to look at
>the groff man pages, if the -T is removed entirely, the default output device
>for groff reverts to ps (Postscript). Sure enough, if I remove the -T entry
>from the man.config, I get Postscript output.

You didn't  read her advice correctly :))
She said
>>         NROFF          /usr/local/bin/groff -Tlatin1 -mandoc
>> into
>>         NROFF          /usr/local/bin/nroff -mandoc

I bet, you changed it to
>>         NROFF          /usr/local/bin/groff -mandoc

That is at least, why I got PS at the first attempt :)

[...]
>
>Vince

Bye.
Michael.
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