Re: [Groff] Progress report on the portability audit -- and what to do about URLs?

[Eric S. Raymond]

Gunnar Ritter <address@hidden>:
> > I've written such implementations and added them, not to an-old.tmac
> > but to the standard preamble I've developed for groff pages.  (This
> > is also where I've defined .SY, .OP, and .YS.)  In every case I've
> > looked at so far, this has been sufficient to decouple the page 
> > from www.tmac.
> >
> > This actually may be a general solution.
> 
> It would exclude Solaris, AIX, and HP-UX. If you do not
> care, go ahead. I am tired of repeating the discussion
> about that.

I believe you are incorrect.  If these definitions are *in the file*,
won't the Solarix/AIX/HP-UX toolchain evaluate them the same way
they would evaluate any other local macro?
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                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>