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From: Jason Hood <adoxa AT postmark DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Man program
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > From: Jason Hood <adoxa AT postmark DOT net>
> >
> > After having installed GLOBAL, I was wondering if 'man' should use
> > 'mandoc' as default instead of 'man'?
> 
> I don't think so.  Why would we need that?  You can always run Groff
> with whatever switches you want, can't you?

It's a lot easier to do "man global" than 
"groff -mandoc d:/djgpp/man/man1/global.1"

I suppose I should just keep the formatted version, anyway.
 
> In any case, GLOBAL should come with formatted man pages, so you
> shouldn't worry about mandoc.

Not the sources.
 
> > If so, I'd be willing to make the change and upload the new version.
> 
> I'm still maintaining `man', so if you want to suggest changes, please
> send the diffs to me, or post them here.
 
Okay. Not that it really matters, now, I suppose :) but here it is:

--- man.c~	Sat Feb 19 12:57:44 2000
+++ man.c	Fri Jul  6 02:23:10 2001
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@
 /* The .exe suffix in program names is so we get better diagnostics
    from `system' library function when the shell is COMMAND.COM.  */
 static char *pager    = "less.exe -c";
-static char *groff    = "groff.exe -man -Tascii";
+static char *groff    = "groff.exe -mandoc -Tascii";
 # ifdef __DJGPP__
 static char *manpath  = "c:/djgpp/man;c:/djgpp/info;/usr/man";
 # else

The comment about manpath was fair enough.

Jason.

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