>> As soon as they are fixed I suggest we contact Nelson Beebe[*] to
>> build and install the next RC on his (really impressive) zoo of
>> operating systems.
>
> Sounds interesting, but what is it exactly? I've skimmed through
> his home page (https://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/) but haven't seen
Hi Bertrand,
Bertrand Garrigues wrote on Mon, Dec 03, 2018 at 01:29:38AM +0100:
> I'm not very familiar with Solaris, so first a general question:
> what is the most 'important' Solaris-like distribution?
There are no such things as Solaris-like distributions.
> I've understood that Solaris 11
Hi Werner,
On Sat, Dec 01 2018 at 07:09:44 AM, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
>> Anything in particular you want me to have a closer look at on
>> OpenBSD, Debian Jessie, or Solaris 9, 10, or 11?
>
> Thanks for checking the issues! As soon as they are fixed I suggest
> we contact Nelson Beebe[*] to build
Hi Colin,
On Sat, Dec 01 2018 at 01:13:54 AM, Colin Watson wrote:
> I pushed a couple of corrections to error paths in the new
> contrib/mom/examples/test-mom.sh.in script. Not perhaps quite critical,
> but since it was only added a week ago and the changes can only possibly
> affect "make check
Hi Ingo,
On Sat, Dec 01 2018 at 04:44:45 PM, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> OpenBSD-current:
>
> schwarze@isnote $ make check
> make check-am
> make
> make all-am
> make check-TESTS
> PASS: contrib/gdiffmk/tests/gdiffmk_tests.sh
> sed -e
> "s|[@]abs_top_builddir[@]|/usr/ports/pobj/groff-1.22.4/gro
Ingo,
On Sat, Dec 01 2018 at 01:20:30 AM, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> On Solaris 11, with the following workaround, it built, it installed,
> and it runs.
>
> export groff_cv_decl_needed_hypot=no
> ../configure
I'll check what you've described on this issue on your other mail next
week. Should I
Hi Ingo,
Thanks for all your tests !
On Fri, Nov 30 2018 at 05:33:11 PM, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
[...]
> However, there are problems on Oracle Solaris 11:
[...]
> checking whether URW fonts in pfb format are available...
> grep: illegal option -- A
> Usage: grep [-c|-l|-q] -bhinsvw pattern file
> So, if you are using a Unix/Linux system with standard
> man-pages, on a command-line terminal enter:
> man sex
> and see what you get!
I've been down this road once beefore the first time I had to write `man
finger`... =)
On Mon, 3 Dec 2018 at 05:52, Ted Harding wrote:
> One thing that does
I just finished reading all 9,535 bytes of Bjarni's e-mail, and I still
don't have a single idea what he's talking baout... =(
On Thu, 22 Feb 2018 at 13:10, Bjarni Ingi Gislason
wrote:
> Title: \} considered as macro argument regarding register .$
>
>
> The reported bug (#42675) is a panic o
One thing that does not seem to have been mentioned so far
(or perhaps I have overlooked it) is the role of roff
(abbreviation of "runoff", to reduce key-strokes) in
the emergence of Unix itself.
Unix was not originally developed by Bell Labs (as a
corporation) but by a group of Bell Labs people w
> It seems relevant
You're looking at the single-most accurate and complete timeline on Roff
anywhere on the web. Parts of it are vague, because the ones who invented
it hardly remembered many of the details over the decades.
It's incredible that Jerome Saltzer is still alive (right?? He was rely
Hi,
Yves Cloutier wrote on Sun, Dec 02, 2018 at 11:36:19AM -0500:
> On Sat, Dec 1, 2018 at 7:27 AM Dave Bucklin wrote:
>> I just came across this on Reddit. It seems relevant.
>> http://manpages.bsd.lv/history.html
Heh, that's funny.
> Hi Dave, thanks for this link!
And if you find errors in
Hi Dave, thanks for this link!
On Sat, Dec 1, 2018 at 7:27 AM Dave Bucklin wrote:
> I just came across this on Reddit. It seems relevant.
>
> http://manpages.bsd.lv/history.html
>
John Gardner wrote:
> Well, I assume his reasons were to have a Troff variant which supported
> right-to-left languages (which, if you think about it, is a pretty glaring
> oversight in a typesetting system...) Ali also has tonnes of other
> non-trivial projects, so his patience is obviously in gr
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