Re: [Groff] Progress report on the portability audit -- and what to do about URLs?

[Gunnar Ritter]

"Eric S. Raymond" <address@hidden> wrote:

> Gunnar Ritter <address@hidden>:
> > > I've written such implementations and added them, not to an-old.tmac
> > > but to the standard preamble I've developed for groff pages.  (This
> > > is also where I've defined .SY, .OP, and .YS.)  In every case I've
> > > looked at so far, this has been sufficient to decouple the page 
> > > from www.tmac.
> > >
> > > This actually may be a general solution.
> > 
> > It would exclude Solaris, AIX, and HP-UX. If you do not
> > care, go ahead. I am tired of repeating the discussion
> > about that.
>
> I believe you are incorrect.  If these definitions are *in the file*,
> won't the Solarix/AIX/HP-UX toolchain evaluate them the same way
> they would evaluate any other local macro?

No, I was quoting ".URL and .MTO" which you cut away, and
for rather obvious reason they will not.

        Gunnar