Re: [Groff] .eo and comments

[Colin Watson]

On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 08:32:16AM +0100, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> The book `Unix Text Processing' says:
> 
>   As far as we can tell by experiment, turning the escape character
>   off entirely with .eo does not affect the comment sequence \"; ...
> 
> So the following
> 
>   .eo
>   This\" is a test.
>   .ec
>   This\" is a test.
> 
> shall apparently produce
> 
>   This This
> 
> Can someone please test this with UNIX troff?

On the systems I can find (HP-UX 10.20, SunOS 2.6, AIX 4.3), it gives
the same output as groff. I don't have access to anything older to
check.

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Colin Watson                                  address@hidden