[17481] in Athena Bugs
IRIX man/nroff y2k bug
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert A Basch)
Wed Jan 19 16:37:47 2000
Message-Id: <200001192137.QAA06900@aupair.mit.edu>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 16:37:40 -0500
From: Robert A Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>
On IRIX, man's page footer's "printed" date shows the year as 100.
This is apparently a problem with the nroff "\n(yr" string, used
in the an macro file. (It does not affect man pages formatted before
Jan. 1 2000...).
SGI knows about this problem.
Bob
