Re: [Groff] What does the "-u" in ".tmac-u" mean?

[Heinz-Jürgen Oertel]

Am Donnerstag, 2. November 2017, 08:09:48 CET schrieb Werner LEMBERG:
> > Does anyone know the reason for the following convention?
> > 
> > $ find -name "*.tmac-*"
> > ./contrib/hdtbl/hdmisc.tmac-u
> > ./contrib/hdtbl/hdtbl.tmac-u
> > ./contrib/mom/om.tmac-u
> > ./tmac/e.tmac-u
> > ./tmac/doc.tmac-u
> > ./tmac/doc-old.tmac-u
> 
> 
> If my memory serves me well, the `u' stands for `uncompressed', i.e.,
> without comments and indentation removed.  Bertrand removed the
> functionality to install stripped tmac files, IIRC — computers are
> much faster today, so this is (probably?) no longer needed.
> 
> 
>     Werner

comparing:
tmac/e.tmac-s
tmac/e.tmac-u

-s means stripped comments and -u unstripped 
Anyway, installed later is tmac/e.tmac
with the following comment at top:
.\" -*- nroff -*-
.\" This is a generated file, created by `tmac/strip.sed' in groff's
.\" source code bundle from a file having `-u' appended to its name.
.\"

So best for development is using the unstripped -u version

regards
     Heinz