Larry Jones wrote:
> ... I have one last problem -- contrib/pdfmark/pdfroff.sh makes
extensive
> use ofthe "type" command, which is *NOT* a standard shell command. I
was
> able to work around it by changing the first line from #!/bin/sh to
> #!/bin/bash, but it should probably be rewritten porta
Keith MARSHALL writes:
>
> Really? I didn't know that, sorry. I used `type' to check that all of the
> necessary prerequisite programs are installed, because I understood that it
> *was* standard in Bourne shell; I've never come across one that didn't have
> it, but my experience has been exclus
Werner Lemberg wrote:
> thanks for the patch. I've simplified it a bit: Your _MAX_PATH code is
> now in maxpathname.cpp. Please test.
I also thought of doing that, and arrived at much the same modification to
maxpathname.cpp as you have. However, my version *did* have one important
difference -
Larry Jones wrote, quoting me:
>> Really? I didn't know that, sorry. I used `type' to check that all of
the
>> necessary prerequisite programs are installed, because I understood
that it
>> *was* standard in Bourne shell; I've never come across one that didn't
have
>> it, but my experience has
Keith MARSHALL writes:
>
> Well, I'm sorry to dispute this, but that has not been my experience. My
> first exposure to UNIX was with VentureCom's VENIX implementation, back in
> 1989. That was essentially a SVR2 implementation, and didn't have a Korn
> shell -- just a basic Bourne shell, which
The most minimal -mm document, containing a heading:
.HU "This is the heading"
.P
This is a little document.
produces warnings from the fact that DEVTAG-NH and DEVTAG-EO-H are
undefined, when compiled for devices other than grohtml. The -mm
macros need to source devtag.tmac, just as the -ms macr
hi all,
is there a way to reset refer settings somewhere 'downstream' if the
'upstream' defaults are no good?
specifically:
in my document I source a certain defaults file in which, upon different
other settings, one finds:
...
.R1
database the_standard_database
.R2
...
now, I want to set in th
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 10:26:45AM -0400, Larry Jones wrote:
> Keith MARSHALL writes:
> >
> > Really? I didn't know that, sorry. I used `type' to check that all of the
> > necessary prerequisite programs are installed, because I understood that it
> > *was* standard in Bourne shell; I've never c
On Wed, May 04, 2005, joerg van den hoff wrote:
> hi all,
>
> is there a way to reset refer settings somewhere 'downstream' if the
> 'upstream' defaults are no good?
>
> specifically:
>
> in my document I source a certain defaults file in which, upon different
> other settings, one finds:
>
>
Zvezdan Petkovic writes:
>
> Well, like it or not, Korn shell was the basis for POSIX. :-)
Being as ksh is my shell of choice, I'm all for it. But given that
basis, I was surprised to find that neither "type" nor "whence" is
supported by the POSIX shell.
> So the solution is to use command -v.
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