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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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Mutt/1.3.28i |
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