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Re: .MS (nroff macro call?) in ftpaccess.5

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kyle Ferrio)
Thu Nov 28 19:07:12 1996

Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 19:05:16 -0500 (EST)
From: Kyle Ferrio <kbf@babylon5.ea.org>
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On 28 Nov 1996, Bill Hogan wrote:

>   I can't seem to get a decent read/printout of the wu-ftpd manual pages
> and the immediate reason seems to be that my groff installation does not
> appear to include a definition of what I am guessing is a macro named
> `.MS' because of the way it is used, e.g. 

Try 'nroff -ms <source-file> > <target-file>'

I'm reasonably sure that the -ms macro package is fairly standard, since I
use it from time to time despite knowing very little about [ntg]roff and
not adding any macros not already in the Colgate distribution. 

Kyle Ferrio


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