Jason McIntyre wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 08:35:52PM +0159, Han Boetes wrote:
> >
> > BTW on the Linux version of nroff I get this:
> >
> > ~% nroff -Tascii -mandoc nfs/spamprobe.1 > /dev/null
> > Usage: Ta must follow column entry: e.g.
> >          .It column_string [Ta [column_string ...]] (#473)
> >
> > Those are useful error messages, how do I enable them with OpenBSD
> > nroff?
> >
>
> i'm not sure it's a case of enabling error messages...more like it
> depends which version of groff you run. i think newer versions of groff
> are a bit better at error reporting (well, 1% less obscure).

I never noticed any errormessages with the OpenBSD version.

Here is some output which I created from some of the .1
manpages. Is this useful to you?

~/nfs/manpage% grep '.*' *.log
cvs.1.log:cvs.1:1732: warning: numeric expression expected (got `l')
intro.1.log:intro.1:33: you can only invoke a string or macro using \*
klog.1.log:mdoc warning: A .Bl directive has no matching .El (#159)
klog.1.log:mdoc warning: extraneous .El call (#179)
readelf.1.log:readelf.1:151: warning [p 1, 3.8i]: cannot adjust line
readelf.1.log:readelf.1:300: warning [p 2, 9.7i, div `an-div', 0.0i]: cannot 
adjust line
readelf.1.log:readelf.1:300: warning [p 2, 9.7i]: cannot adjust line


--- klog.1.orig 2006-10-01 00:38:18.578108000 +0200
+++ klog.1      2006-10-01 00:39:11.406110000 +0200
@@ -156,6 +156,7 @@ a better choice of name)
 .Pp
 .It Fl help
 Prints out a help message.
+.El
 .Sh EXIT STATUS
 .Nm
 returns with exit status 0 (true) if and only if a Kerberos 4 TGT was
@@ -176,7 +177,6 @@ figure out the proper AFSId to use. As f
 the output of the \fBtokens\fP program.
 .Pp
 The minimum token lifetime is 5 minutes.
-.El
 .Sh SEE ALSO
 .Xr aklog 1 ,
 .Xr kauth 1 ,



# Han

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