[comp.text] tbl bug on next?

rit@killdeer.Stanford.EDU (Jean-Francois Rit) (05/03/91)

There seems to be a problem with tbl on the 2.1 next extended release.

man tbl

generates an error because there happen to be a line beginning with
.TS  in tbl.1 without intention to make a table (like in this
sentence).

That can be fixed, but then comes the *real problem*: when you do man
tbl you get the error message:

line 50 no specification.

You can get this error directly by trying, say,

man mf

which returns 

line 124 no specification.

Has anybody got this to work on a next?
Do roff experts have a clue on what could be wrong? (The man page or
the doc "Tbl a program to format tables" by M E Lesk don't give a
clue...)

yours,

J-F Rit