[TUHS] Trying to date "A Supplemental Document For Awk"

Greg 'groggy' Lehey grog at lemis.com
Thu Jun 29 09:47:50 AEST 2023


On Wednesday, 28 June 2023 at 14:38:40 -0400, Clem Cole wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 28, 2023 at 2:04 PM KenUnix <ken.unix.guy at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> It's been too long. What would I use to compile this man page source?
>>
>> I do remember some option switches are required. Yes?
>
> Download the file and make sure you save it in "UNIX" format, not DOS (
> *i.e.* newline delimited not the nasty <CR><LF> cruft) -- (if you are not
> sure how to do that running the dos2unix(1) command will assure it's was
> not unix format when you are done).
>
> % file awkdoc
> awkdoc: troff or preprocessor input text, ASCII text
> % man groff

There's also grog (groff guess) that may help.  It's not very clever,
but it recognizes a number of formats:

 $ grog ls.1
 groff -mdoc ls.1

Greg
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