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 We'll leave it to you to figure out which switches for troff/groff and macro package (hint: try the head(1) command to peak at the first few lines -- there are three likely choices, but it's pretty obvious since the same one as most V7 documents). FWIW: If you got a copy of Kernighan and Pike's - "The Unix Programming Environment" [ISBN 0-13-937699-2] which is available at most retailers. You can read Chapter 9 for this question. Although, given so many of the questions you seem to like to ask here, please consider doing all the exercises in the entire book. ᐧ On Wed, Jun 28, 2023 at 2:04 PM KenUnix wrote: > Guys, > > It's been too long. What would I use to compile this man page source? > > I do remember some option switches are required. Yes? > > Thanks > > > On Wed, Jun 28, 2023 at 1:49 PM Adam Sampson wrote: > >> On Wed, Jun 28, 2023 at 09:26:02AM +0300, Aharon Robbins wrote: >> > Attached is "A Supplemental Document For Awk". This circulated on >> > USENET in the 80s. My copy is dated January 18, 1989, but I'm sure >> > it's older than that. >> >> In the utzoo Usenet archive, there are two versions of this document and >> a few mentions of it... >> >> John Pierce posted to comp.unix.questions on 1989-04-02, saying he'd >> written it "four or five years ago". >> >> Stu Heiss, in comp.unix.questions on 1989-03-06, said it was "posted to >> net.sources 18 Jun 86 with message-id 238@sdchema.sdchem.uucp". >> Unfortunately this isn't in the utzoo archive or the net.sources.mbox >> in archive.org's Usenet Historical Collection. >> >> A copy identical to yours was posted by Jim Harkins to >> comp.unix.questions on 1990-03-29. >> >> There's a later version, fixing a typo and some formatting and adding a >> mention of \f and \b in printf, which was posted by Brian Kantor to >> comp.doc on 1987-10-11 -- I've attached this. The same file (with two >> .bps commented out) was reposted in comp.unix.questions on 1989-11-16 by >> Francois-Michel Lang. >> >> Thanks, >> >> -- >> Adam Sampson >> > > > -- > End of line > JOB TERMINATED -->> Okey Dokey, OK Boss > > >