On Wednesday 10 January 2007 18:59, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> Gunnar Ritter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > > I believe you are incorrect. If these definitions are *in the
> > > file*, won't the Solarix/AIX/HP-UX toolchain evaluate them the
> > > same way they would evaluate any other local macro?
> >
> >
> The problem is Berkeley Unix vs. AT&T Unix. AT&T put admin commands
> in section 1M and file formats in section 4. Berkeley put them in
> 8 and 5. Linux apparently followed the Berkeley convention. HP made
> the change from Berkeley to the AT&T arrangement at HP-UX 5.0 in 1985,
> and it appe
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 08:49:37PM -0700, Clarke Echols wrote:
>
[...]
> I was somewhat hesitant to really accept the longer names
> allowed by groff because I usually prefer "backwards
> compatibility", but after taking advantage of it, I find it
> very nice in terms of keeping macros readable
Jon Snader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I don't think we should go out of our way to break
> compatibility with these systems, but I also don't think we
> should take extraordinary measures to ensure that the new macros
> will be compatible with those installations that probably won't
> use them anyw
Sorry for not answering earlier. I'm actually very short in time.
Some days ago, there was a long discussion on reading man pages in a
web browser. That actually exists, just use
`groffer --html `
That will find all man pages similar to man(1) , transform the found
source file into html and d
"Eric S. Raymond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2007-01-10 14:45 -0500:
> Why does backslash render as a yen symbol when I do M-x man 7 man?
Since nobody else has responded to this, and at the risk of
bringing some wrath down upon myself for telling you something you
already know...
I think the code po
