Re: Solaris 9 'man' command runs afoul of groff 1.19 SGR

[Werner LEMBERG]

> The problem is that Sun's "man" command runs
> "nroff -u0 ... | col -x".  Groff's nroff outputs SGR commands,
> but the Solaris 'col' command doesn't understand them and
> strips off the escapes.

Thanks for the patch, I've installed with slight modifications (see
below).


    Werner


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--- nroff.sh.old        Tue Jan 28 09:40:44 2003
+++ nroff.sh    Sat Jun  7 09:53:16 2003
@@ -58,9 +58,11 @@
       # ignore other devices
       ;;
     -u*)
-      # Solaris 2.2 `man' uses -u0; ignore it,
+      # Solaris 2.2 through at least Solaris 9 `man' invokes
+      # `nroff -u0 ... | col -x'.  Ignore the -u0,
       # since `less' and `more' can use the emboldening info.
-      ;;
+      # However, disable SGR, since Solaris `col' mishandles it.
+      opts="$opts -P-c" ;;
     -v | --version)
       echo "GNU nroff (groff) version @VERSION@"
       exit 0 ;;