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From: corinna DOT vinschen AT cityweb DOT de (Corinna Vinschen)
Subject: Re: man package: patch _against_ <AD> at word breaks
19 Nov 1998 05:26:33 -0800 :
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References: <752o$xCppfB AT mike DOT franken DOT de>
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Michael Hirmke wrote:
> 
> 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 :)

Sorry, I should have marked the change groff vs. nroff clearer!

Corinna


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