nroff bug?

Fred Fish fnf at fishpond.UUCP
Fri Nov 18 08:40:18 AEST 1988


In article <22078 at sgi.SGI.COM> andru at rhialto.SGI.COM (Andrew Myers) writes:
>For some reason, the following piece of input to nroff fails to work
>properly on my system.
>....					Do other people have
>this problem? -Andrew

This also fails on Apple's A/UX.  I noticed exactly the same problem
some months ago while writing some documentation, but wrote it off as
just an A/UX glitch.  Looks like I was wrong.  The only cure I could
find was to use \fR in place of \fP, wherever it broke.

-Fred
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