Re: [Groff] pic.ps

[Michael Parson]

On Wed, 27 Sep 2017, Dale Snell wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Sep 2017 11:43:40 -0400, in message
> address@hidden, Doug McIlroy wrote:
>
> > The Fedora system I have access to lacks /usr/share/doc/groff, and
> > in particular the wonderful tutorial /usr/share/doc/groff/pic.ps.
> > Was that omitted from groff 1.22.3, or did it get dropped somewhere
> > in the chain of custody between there and here?
>
> What version of Fedora are you using?  In my Fedora 25 box, that
> file does exist.  Here's the list for the entire directory:
>
>   $ ls -AF /usr/share/doc/groff
>   examples/  meintro.me  meintro_fr.me  meref.me  pdf/    pic.ps
>   html/      meintro.ps  meintro_fr.ps  meref.ps  pic.ms
>
> It occurs to me that the full groff package set may not have been
> installed.  Fedora defaults to loading only the package
> "groff-base" so that man pages can be displayed.  To actually use
> groff for any other purpose, the packages "groff", "groff-doc",
> "groff-perl", and "groff-X11" have to be installed.  Annoying, but
> there it is.

"dnf provides */pic.ps*" tells me that this should be provided by the
"groff-doc" RPM.

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Michael Parson
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