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commit ec6f9267c3505af1bf4f9294fb05e88536d783bf
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Sat Aug 30 03:27:23 2025 -0500
NEWS: Clarify item.
We're definitely referring to Ossanna/Kernighan nroff here, not eroff or
sqtroff or whatever other roffs once were available on Unix systems.
(They may have had the same default, but that's hard for me to
determine.)
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NEWS | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 85559c61b..2bb701ccf 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -460,7 +460,7 @@ Macro packages
changed the default line length when formatting on terminals from 78n
to 80n. The latter is a vastly more common device configuration, but
that line length had been avoided since the groff 1.18 release in
- July 2002 (prior to that, the line length was 65n, as in Unix nroff),
+ July 2002 (prior to that, the line length was 65n, as in AT&T nroff),
for an undocumented reason. That reason appears to have been the
interaction of bugs in GNU tbl(1) with an aspect of grotty(1)'s
design. Those bugs have been resolved. A man(1) program can still
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