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From: cael@allen.qal.berkeley.edu (cael)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: BSD program - Window
Message-ID: <12vrusINNikt@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: 2 Jul 92 21:20:28 GMT
References: <l4vqm5INNd6k@west.west.sun.com>
Organization: QAL UC Berkeley
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In article <l4vqm5INNd6k@west.west.sun.com> mcalame@servant.West.Sun.COM (Matthew Calame - SE Sacramento) writes:
>While browsing through BSD source, I ran across the window program.
>A file called window.1 is included. Blindly assuming that this was in the
>standard man format, I copied the file to /uar/man/man1 and then tried
>a man window to get a readable version of the text. The results are not
>exactly what I expected.
>
>Does anyone know what utility should use to convert this program to readable
>text?  (And yes, I do not claim to be a master of the various **roff programs).
>
>Attached is the window.1 file.
>

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>
>.\"	@(#)window.1	6.15 (Berkeley) 7/26/91
>.\"
>.Dd July 26, 1991
>.Dt WINDOW 1
>.Os BSD 4.3

You need to pull the mdoc macro package off the net (wherever you
got your BSD from).  It is in /usr/src/share/tmac:

Makefile        doc             doc-ditroff     doc-syms        tmac.andoc
README          doc-common      doc-nroff       strip.sed@      tmac.doc.old

The make file has a non-existent file name in it which will cause
it to break.  Delete that name if you want to use the make file.
The file tmac.andoc  can determine the difference between
a -man man page and a -mdoc man page (it is actually the
tmac.an file on BSD).

If you  have problems, send mail to me:  cael@vangogh.cs.berkeley.edu
also beware the macro package is very slow.