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DESC 'paperfile' keyword is not documented
From: |
Jim Avera |
Subject: |
DESC 'paperfile' keyword is not documented |
Date: |
Fri, 07 Dec 2001 21:03:38 -0800 |
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Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.6+) Gecko/20011207 |
GROFF VERSION: 1.17.2
MACHINE: x86
OS: SuSE Linux 7.3
COMMAND LINE:
echo "foo" | troff -Tps > /tmp/xx
grops /tmp/xx >/dev/null
DESCRIPTION OF INCORRECT BEHAVIOUR:
DESC 'paperfile' keyword is undocumented.
On my system, the following error occurs:
grops:/tmp/xx:1: can't open `/etc/papersize'
The file /etc/papersize indeed does not exist (in SuSE 7.3),
but this file is not documented anywhere I can find.
I searched all the g* man pages and the groff info files.
SUGGESTED FIX:
Document the 'paperfile' DESC feature in the info files.
(SuSE also needs to fix their distribution to set up /etc/papersize, but
the lack of documentation in groff makes it hard for a normal user to
recover from this packaging bug).
- DESC 'paperfile' keyword is not documented,
Jim Avera <=