So I've been trying to write some manpages, working on Windows XP + Cygwin, and ran into a couple of "gotcha"s... 1. man fails for some deeply-buried reason when told to display a nroff file directly when the file is in a directory whose path contains spaces, even if the path it's given is a relative path; the workaround is to copy a draft to a path that does not contain spaces, and then call it against that path. Someone seems to have reported the bug and provided a patch back in 2004, but the copy I have is not fixed yet... <a href="http://www.mail-archive.com/cygwin@cygwin.com/msg36390.html">http://www.mail-archive.com/cygwin@cygwin.com/msg36390.html</a> 2. a lot of stuff works with "CR LF" line endings ... but the tbl(1) package doesn't. -- David L. Lambert <<a href="mailto:davidl@lmert.com" target="_blank">davidl@lmert.com</a>> or <<a href="mailto:lamber45@msu.edu" target="_blank">lamber45@msu.edu</a>> or <<a href="mailto:david.lee.lambert@acm.org" target="_blank">david.lee.lambert@acm.org</a>>, formerly "<a href="mailto:as4109@wayne.edu" target="_blank">as4109@wayne.edu</a>" IM: davidleelambert (Yahoo!) or <a href="mailto:lamber45@cse.msu.edu" target="_blank">lamber45@cse.msu.edu</a> (MSN) Phone: 616-676-7375