From: Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: dired-man can't deal with compressed pages
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 12:07:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <403A4F6C.8040606@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: uptc6tjhp.fsf@elta.co.il
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
>>Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 23:59:29 +0200
...
>>>??? Is that even possible? I thought all the preprocessors we need
>>>(eqn, tbl, refer, and soelim) are always installed as part of the
>>>standard Troff/Groff/man packages. How else would users be able to
>>>format the pages they have?
>>
>>Could you assure that all these preprocessors are available for all
>>man versions?
>
> I think having `man' installed guarantees that, but I don't regard
> myself as an expert on this issue. Does anyone know if the 4
> preprocessors mentioned above are guaranteed to be installed with
> `man'?
I don't think so, because some systems come with pre-processed man pages
which their `man` command finds in directories like /usr/man/cat1 or
/usr/man/sman1. That's simply to speed things up and doesn't imply that
the troff preprocessors aren't also installed, but it certainly seems
possible that they could be missing on such systems.
--
Kevin Rodgers
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-23 19:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-22 0:45 dired-man can't deal with compressed pages Juri Linkov
2004-02-22 6:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-02-22 19:03 ` Juri Linkov
2004-02-22 20:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-02-22 21:59 ` Juri Linkov
2004-02-23 6:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-02-23 19:07 ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
2004-02-23 19:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-02-23 3:42 ` Juri Linkov
2004-02-23 6:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-02-23 18:57 ` Richard Stallman
2004-02-23 15:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-02-23 18:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-02-23 23:36 ` Juri Linkov
2004-02-24 6:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-02-24 22:03 ` Juri Linkov
2004-02-24 19:26 ` Dan Jacobson
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