C/A/T troff bug with -mm macros (4.3BSD)

Vidiot brown at vidiot.UUCP
Wed Dec 20 06:56:35 AEST 1989


In article <JBW.89Dec17214350 at bucsf.bu.edu> jbw at bucsf.bu.edu (Joe Wells) writes:
<In article <927 at hsi86.hsi.UUCP> stevens at hsi.UUCP (Richard Stevens) writes:
<
<   I have found a bug with the old C/A/T version of troff that's
<   shipped with 4.3BSD.  The bug shows up with the -mm macro
<   package.
<
<As several people have already pointed out, this is because of the missing
<\g command in your version of troff.  I'm including a diff to the MM macro
<package to make it work without \g.  The diff also fixes some other bugs.

Wait-a-minute!  What is a \g command?  My UNIX documentation books don't have
any mention of it.  This includes a book that cover DWB2.0.
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