On 26 Jul 99 at 2:38, mooreat_private wrote: > Another, perhaps less intrusive/time consuming alternative is to > change the TROFF and NROFF lines in /etc/man.conf with: > > TROFF /usr/bin/groff -S -Tps -mandoc > NROFF /usr/bin/groff -S -Tascii -mandoc > > (that is, add the -S switch) > > -S Safer mode. Pass the -S option to pic and use the > -msafer macros with troff. > > see also "man 7 msafer" Unfortunately, this wouldn't affect xman, which doesn't know about man.conf and always use hardcoded commandline: viper:~% strings `which xman` | grep -i roff | geqn | gtbl | groff -Tascii -mandoc This is defined as `FORMAT' macro in xman/vendor.h (and slightly modified with x11r6-contrib-3.1.2-mandoc.patch in RedHat rpm), and can't be customized with environment/resources. There are many other help/manpage browsers (helptool, gnome-help-browser come to mind), so the right thing is to modify groff. ___________________________________________________________________ Dmitry Yu. Bolkhovityanov | Novosibirsk, RUSSIA phone (383-2)-39-49-56 | The Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics | Lab. 5-13
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