On Wednesday, 28 June 2023 at 14:38:40 -0400, Clem Cole wrote: > On Wed, Jun 28, 2023 at 2:04 PM KenUnix wrote: > >> It's been too long. What would I use to compile this man page source? >> >> I do remember some option switches are required. Yes? > > Download the file and make sure you save it in "UNIX" format, not DOS ( > *i.e.* newline delimited not the nasty cruft) -- (if you are not > sure how to do that running the dos2unix(1) command will assure it's was > not unix format when you are done). > > % file awkdoc > awkdoc: troff or preprocessor input text, ASCII text > % man groff There's also grog (groff guess) that may help. It's not very clever, but it recognizes a number of formats: $ grog ls.1 groff -mdoc ls.1 Greg -- Sent from my desktop computer. Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. This message is digitally signed. If your Microsoft mail program reports problems, please read http://lemis.com/broken-MUA.php