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Re: [Groff] An environment variable for enabling compatibility mode


From: Bernd Warken
Subject: Re: [Groff] An environment variable for enabling compatibility mode
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 14:18:01 +0100
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On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 11:33:21AM +0000, address@hidden wrote:
> How does this improve on groff's -C option which it currently passes
> onto all the pipeline commands?

Not at all.  This is the implementation of the -C option as an 
environment variable.

> I still think that's the case because, as Jon said, we end up with
> documents that use some groff extensions, so we can't use -C, but we
> don't want them to break with future groffs.
> 
That's a different topic; this is worth to have a thread of its own.  
I'm speaking only about compatibility to classical pre-groff 
compatibility.  That's what -C is about.

Bernd Warken


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