At 2025-10-26T18:32:25-0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > Next up... > > > 2. See what's going wrong with terminfo(5) on Solaris 10.
What's wrong turns out to be straightforward, but not necessarily easy to fix. The problem is use of the 'x' column modifier in tbl(1) tables. Solaris 10 tbl rejects it and "tbl quits". Heirloom Doctools troff claims that 'x' is a GNU extension. It's not. But GNU tbl is probably how most people came to know of it, because I can't find a trace of it in any AT&T troff lineage except DWB 3.3. It's not in Research Tenth Edition Unix tbl nor Plan 9 tbl despite some cross-pollination that happened between DWB and Research troffs. I'm updating groff's tbl(1) page to clarify this point. The question for ncurses is what to do about it. It'll take me some time to ponder possibilities. Regards, Branden
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