[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: [Help-bash] bash man page and FreeBSD mandoc
|
From: |
Chet Ramey |
|
Subject: |
Re: [Help-bash] bash man page and FreeBSD mandoc |
|
Date: |
Fri, 21 Dec 2018 09:59:16 -0500 |
|
User-agent: |
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.13; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.3.3 |
On 12/20/18 7:07 PM, Derek Schrock wrote:
> Recently in the 12.0-RELEASE FreeBSD removed groff from the base system.
>
> FreeBSD's man shell wrapper does some checks on the man page to see if
> it's possible if mandoc can process the file. bash's man page is
> almost compliant with the exception of four control characters (0x7) at
> the top of the file (lines 34 and 36).
This is a macro redefinition fix for an old bug in the BSD and Ultrix man
macros. We can try removing it, since there probably aren't any remaining
systems using them.
Chet
--
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU address@hidden http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/