RE: [announce] PCP 2.3.0-pre available for testing

[Ken McDonell <kenmcd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, Davis, Todd C wrote:

> The fix for man2html and khelpcenter to the man pages that Ken McDonell
> developed is not included in pcp-2.3.0-5.
>
> Ken changed
>
> .ie \(.g .TH PMINFO  1 "SGI" "Performance Co-Pilot"
> .el \{\
>
> To
>
> .ie \(.g \{\
> .\" ... groff ... assume Linux (hack for khelpcenter, man2html, etc.)
> .TH PMINFO  1 "SGI" "Performance Co-Pilot"
> \}
> .el \{\
> .\" ... not groff, so likely to be IRIX

OK, by all of the rules of troff (since 1975 if I recall correctly)
these two are forms have _exactly_ the same semantics.  If khelpcenter,
man2html, etc.  can process the second form, but not the first they are
even more broken than I had first suspected.

The verbose variant will appear in the next packaging from Mark.