Werner LEMBERG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > . If you use a table within a man page, the first line should be > > .\" t
Not exactly, it should be '\" t At least this is the convention on SunOS, and, following that, on SVR4 derivatives. (The first reference I can find is in a SunOS 4 manual page from 1988.) "man" commands in that line do not interpret the first line as a preprocessor specification if the first character is a dot. Gunnar