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[groff] 09/10: PROBLEMS: Annotate a control character land mine.


From: G. Branden Robinson
Subject: [groff] 09/10: PROBLEMS: Annotate a control character land mine.
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2023 21:23:10 -0400 (EDT)

gbranden pushed a commit to branch master
in repository groff.

commit 49243465e111b538bdd3ec01e3d7480db3020a76
Author: G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Sun Apr 16 19:51:05 2023 -0500

    PROBLEMS: Annotate a control character land mine.
---
 PROBLEMS | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/PROBLEMS b/PROBLEMS
index 50db2f098..dd388671e 100644
--- a/PROBLEMS
+++ b/PROBLEMS
@@ -368,7 +368,9 @@ Use the `ftr' request.  See groff_diff(7).
 
 * I get errors using the Unix -ms macros with groff -e -C.
 
-Apply this change:
+Apply this change.  Be careful of copying and pasting it; literal BEL
+characters (Control+G) appear in the source--this is an AT&T troff idiom
+in output comparisons that is never necessary in GNU troff.
 
 *** /usr/lib/ms/ms.eqn Tue Apr 25 02:14:28 1989
 --- ms.eqn     Sun Nov 11 10:33:59 1990



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