Hallo Thomas, Now again CC'd to the Cygwin list.
Am Montag, 17. März 2003 um 09:01 schriebst du: > "Gerrit P. Haase" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb am 16.03.03 16:42:01: >> >> Hallo mellman, >> >> Am Freitag, 14. März 2003 um 22:46 schriebst du: >> >> > Is there a way to dump the exact pipeline that perldoc uses? >> > It says something in the man page about nroff, etc ... >> > Does it use nroff or groff? >> >> /usr/bin/nroff >> >> From perldoc -h: >> >> Options: >> -t Display pod using pod2text instead of pod2man and nroff >> (-t is the default on win32) >> >> So the problem probably is hidden somewhere in pod2man. > Oh, no, I doubt that. If the -t option entry is to be interpreted as: > using (pod2text) instead of (pod2man, nroff) ... > then surely not. Well, pod2text works, pod2man & nroff doesn't. > it's nroff that generates the escape sequences, which on cursory inspection, BTW, > look good. I suspect a problem on the interface between nroff and the pager > (but not the $PAGER, because it doesn't help to eliminate that variable). > Setting $PERLDOC_PAGER to less doesn't help. Interesting, though, is that > entering: > perl2man /usr/bin/perldoc | nroff -man | less > gives the same results. Also w/ groff. > I'll bet there's a problem with the -man package. > Incidently, I did: > perl2man /usr/bin/perldoc > $tmp/perldoc.1 > man $tmp/perldoc.1 > and it comes out right. Does man use a different -man package? Then it isn't pod2man... Hmmm, generating the manpage with pod2man works, then it is probably a problem with nroff, as you said. man maintainer, groff maintainer, any comments? > BTW, Du kannst aber schon deutsch schreiben wenn Du willst. :-) Gerrit -- =^..^=