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Re: [Groff] An environment variable for enabling compatibility mode
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Bernd Warken |
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Re: [Groff] An environment variable for enabling compatibility mode |
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Thu, 31 Jan 2002 14:18:01 +0100 |
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On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 11:33:21AM +0000, address@hidden wrote:
> How does this improve on groff's -C option which it currently passes
> onto all the pipeline commands?
Not at all. This is the implementation of the -C option as an
environment variable.
> I still think that's the case because, as Jon said, we end up with
> documents that use some groff extensions, so we can't use -C, but we
> don't want them to break with future groffs.
>
That's a different topic; this is worth to have a thread of its own.
I'm speaking only about compatibility to classical pre-groff
compatibility. That's what -C is about.
Bernd Warken
Re: [Groff] An environment variable for enabling compatibility mode, Werner LEMBERG, 2002/01/31
Re: [Groff] An environment variable for enabling compatibility mode, Werner LEMBERG, 2002/01/31