RE: [Groff] strange if "..."..." behaviour

[Konovalov, Vadim]

> Consider the following code snippet:
> 
> 
> .ds xx \fR|\fP
> .ie "|"\*(xx" \
> .  tm true
> .el \
> .  tm false
> 
> 
> Would you expect that the result is `true'?  I didn't.
> 
> The original troff manual says:
> 
>   ... if the strings compare identically (including motions and
>   character size and font), _anything_ is accepted as input ...
> 
> I would interpret this that the comparison is done by a simple
> strcmp(), and not interpreting the strings.  Can someone please check
> this with an original AT&T troff?

On SUN, System V Release 4.0 it outputs true for me.

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