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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uniwa!cujo!cproto
From: cproto@cs.curtin.edu.au (Computer Protocol)
Subject: Can't make documents in /usr/src/share/doc from NET2
Message-ID: <cproto.733325799@marsh>
Summary: Can't make documents in /usr/src/share/doc from NET2
Keywords: NET2 documents
Sender: news@cujo.curtin.edu.au (News Manager)
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1993 13:36:39 GMT
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I got the system manuals from NET2's /usr/src/share/doc and
tried to run make to create a printable output of those manuals.
As it turns out the make includes bsd.doc.mk which isn't setup
for 386bsd and groff and friends. I know very little about groff,
but it seems that just running something like

      groff -Tascii -t xyz

should give an approximation of the output. Groff complains about
not finding special characters "dg" and "dd" and font file "S" ???

Try it by cd-ing into /usr/src/share/doc/smm/02.config and running
groff -Tascii -t *.t|more.

Also the output isn't really readable. I tried also with -Tps and
looked at the output with Ghostscript, which showed only garbage.

Also the makefiles use roff macro files I don't have e.g. "sU".

Has anybody out there tried this before?

Regards - Tibor Sashegyi (cproto@cs.curtin.edu.au)