Re: man preprocessor different than on Red Hat?
Peter S Galbraith <GalbraithP@dfo-mpo.gc.ca> writes:
> Paul Slootman wrote:
>
> > What happens if you pass the -pt option to man?
>
> $ man -pt -l ./powstatd.8
>
> Then it works.
>From man(1):
The filters are deciphered by a number of means. Firstly,
the command line option -p or the environment variable
$MANROFFSEQ is interrogated. If -p was not used and the
environment variable was not set, the initial line of the
nroff file is parsed for a preprocessor string. To contain
a valid preprocessor string, the first line must resemble
'\" <string>
where string can be any combination of letters described
by option -p below.
Guy
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