`man groff_char' misbehaving

Brandon Allbery allbery.b at gmail.com
Wed Nov 18 13:08:58 PST 2015


On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 4:07 PM, j. van den hoff <veedeehjay at gmail.com>
wrote:

> ah yes, never occured to me tht there might be a man port as well. thank
> you for this solution. regarding "satisfactory": for my personal use, yes
> it is. generally, I'd say no, since it seems osx's man does something
> wrong/non-canonical, no?
>

Probably means Apple ships older groff and newer programs' manpages expect
a newer groff. I've seen a fair number of groff warnings to that extent.

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