Willard Goosey

Yay, I got an ancient MINIX version of cawf to compile!

I'm not sure if I'll just stick with this version or attempt to compile a current version...

(cawf is the C version of awf, Henry Spencer's nroff clone written in AWK!)

#cawf #minix #awk #manpages

May 30, 2020 at 6:51pmWeb
Show threadWillard GooseyMay 30, 2020
If the newer version of cawf supports mandoc macros it might be worth porting.
#cawf #manpages #mandoc
Show threadWillard GooseyMay 31, 2020

cawf-minix fails on modern man pages. Mostly because cawf's man macros are all UPPER CASE and modern macros are Mixed Case 🤐

I suspect porting modern C source would still be easier than hacking around in the nroff macros.

grr i just want to look at man pages!

#cawf #manpages #mixedCaseBlues

Show threadWillard GooseyJun 2, 2020
or maybe file(1) just has an extra perverse manpage?
Show threadWillard GooseyJun 13, 2020

Newest version of cawf I can find dates to 1997. No support for mandoc files.

It makes sense, groff was available by then, so what's the point of a funky old partial nroff clone?

Show threadWillard GooseyJun 13, 2020

BSD's mandoc package looks like it's really what I want, but is also overkill and wants to be set up with a configure script, so that's a job for the autobuilder people.

Of course, if the autobuilder system hadn't mangled file's manpage so badly I wouldn't be looking for a manpage formatter under RISC OS.