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Re: [Groff] pic.ps
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Ingo Schwarze |
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Re: [Groff] pic.ps |
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Wed, 27 Sep 2017 18:19:37 +0200 |
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Hi Doug,
Doug McIlroy wrote on Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 11:43:40AM -0400:
> The Fedora system I have access to lacks /usr/share/doc/groff,
> and in particular the wonderful tutorial /usr/share/doc/groff/pic.ps.
It might be somewhere else. For example, the OpenBSD port has it here:
/usr/local/share/doc/groff/pic.ps
If Fedora doesn't have it at all, i would suspect that might be a bug
local to the Fedora distribution then.
> Was that omitted from groff 1.22.3, or did it get dropped somewhere
> in the chain of custody between there and here?
No, it is still in groff 1.22.3.
See doc/pic.ms in the groff git repo.
And look at doc/doc.am to convince yourself that it is still
being installed by default.
> Another bit of evidence: in a cygwin installation I also use,
> the files in /usr/share/doc/groff are a year older than those
> in /usr/share/groff.
I don't think timestamps on *installed* files mean much, except
maybe for debugging how the installation was done on that
particular machine. Read the fantastic source!
Yours,
Ingo