Is there any reason why you don't pipe man pages through tbl? To be more precise, why don't you use the `man' program which normally can handle this automatically (this is, recognizing the necessary preprocessors based on the first line of the man page)?
If you don't like `man', I suggest that you use something like tbl | nroff ... in `mc.ext.in' (where `tbl' should be `gtbl' on platforms where you have `gtroff' instead of `troff'). Always calling tbl should never cause problems. Werner _______________________________________________ Mc mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc