`man groff_char' misbehaving

[Brandon Allbery]

On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 4:17 PM, j. van den hoff <veedeehjay at gmail.com>
wrote:

> well, groff_char is a manpage from the groff project itself and I would be
> surprised if it has changed much (and in a backward incompatible way!) in
> recent years (but did not check/verify this). actually it seems the problem
> is with the `tbl' precprocessor (that's the one throwing the errors). maybe
> I will try to ask at the groff mailing list what's going on here.


tbl is part of / distributed with groff. And last I checked, Apple (and the
*BSDs in general) was shipping a *really ancient* groff, probably because
of license concerns.

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