Perldoc and nroff -c idea

2003-07-24 Thread Sean M. Burke
So a while back, some folks on p5p were discussing how certain bugs in various different pairings of man/nroff/less can be worked around by having Pod::Perldoc call nroff with a -c switch. And I was all ready to to add that to Pod::Perldoc::ToMan's call to nroff -man, so that there'd usually

Re: Perldoc and nroff -c idea

2003-07-24 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 10:54:19AM -0800, Sean M. Burke wrote: At 07:34 PM 2003-07-24 +0100, Colin Watson wrote: Sean M. Burke wrote: If I'm reading this right, he's saying that if we add the -c switch, some old versions of *roff will scream that it's an unknown switch; if true, that would