[GLLUG] Funny things about groff_man(7) on Cygwin...

[David Lee Lambert]

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...

http://www.mail-archive.com/cygwin@cygwin.com/msg36390.html

2.  a lot of stuff works with "CR LF" line endings ... but the tbl(1)
package doesn't.

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