SCHDAVZ@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (Dave Schweisguth) (06/14/91)
Our Personal Iris currently has no 'nroff'; the purchaser didn't realize we
needed it. We've been nroffing things on another local Unix system (a Convex
running Convex Unix). The manpages we nroffed (with -man) look just fine when
displayed by man (aside from having the wrong header line), but aren't
recognized by 'makewhatis' or the database-building utilities that come with
'gman'. All other manpages (those formatted by SGI and one on a Sun) work.
So, is there something simple in the manpage format we can fix, or is this
too heavily dependent on different flavors of 'nroff'? A possible solution is
to replace the header lines, but this sounds too simple to work; I figured I'd
ask the net first. We're probably going to get 'nroff' eventually, but I'd like
to know what's going on in the meantime. Thanks for any input ...
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\_____________________________________________________________________________/tpm@ecs.soton.ac.uk (TP Monks) (06/17/91)
In <91165.092700SCHDAVZ@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu> SCHDAVZ@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (Dave Schweisguth) writes: >Our Personal Iris currently has no 'nroff'; the purchaser didn't realize we >needed it. We've been nroffing things on another local Unix system (a Convex You and many others! >ask the net first. We're probably going to get 'nroff' eventually, but I'd like >to know what's going on in the meantime. Thanks for any input ... When you say 'get' if you mean 'buy', try geting awf for free from fresnel.stanford.edu. This will do nroff, neqn, and tbl. Tim Monks Southampton University