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Re: [Groff] weird ASCII formatting output


From: Colin Watson
Subject: Re: [Groff] weird ASCII formatting output
Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 22:13:01 +0100
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On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 08:55:20PM +0100, address@hidden wrote:
> Oh, and when I tried groffer in the hope it would do the Right Thing,
> it blows up:
> 
> %  groffer man1/groffer.1 
> ash: not found
>  should be 'second' here.
> 
> It seems to depend on a shell that's only on Linux systems. What gives? 

ash is, in fact, the BSD sh. I'm not sure why groffer uses it
explicitly, although it's probably a speed hack since bash is slower; it
should definitely be fixed to work on systems without ash, though.

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Colin Watson                                  address@hidden


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