In the preparation of a package, I've come up against a man page
made for Red Hat that doesn't process correctly for Debian (at
least on slink).
The man page defines a table like so:
[cut]
Hit ^C to stop after you see something like:
.in +3
.TS
tab(#);
l2 s2 s2 s4 s2 s4 s
l2 l2 l2 l4 l2 l4 l.
powstatd: online (standalone), watching /dev/ttyS0.#
CTS#DSR#DCD#RNG#DTR#RTS#STATUS
1#0#1#1#0#1#OK
1#0#1#1#0#1#OK
1#0#1#1#0#1#OK
1#0#1#1#0#1#OK
.TE
.in -3
[cut]
On Red Hat, the page looks like:
Hit ^C to stop after you see something like:
powstatd: online (standalone), watching /dev/ttyS0.
CTS DSR DCD RNG DTR RTS STATUS
1 0 1 1 0 1 OK
1 0 1 1 0 1 OK
1 0 1 1 0 1 OK
1 0 1 1 0 1 OK
On Debian (slink), it looks like:
tab(#); l2 s2 s2 s4 s2 s4 s1 s l2 l2 l2 l4 l2 l4 l1 l.
powstatd: online (standalone), watching /dev/ttyS1.#
CTS#DSR#DCD#RNG#DTR#RTS#STATUS# 1#0#1#1#0#1#OK#
1#0#1#1#0#1#OK# 1#0#1#1#0#1#OK# 1#0#1#1#0#1#OK#
0#0#1#1#0#1#FAIL#<- plug pulled 0#0#1#1#0#1#FAIL#
0#0#1#1#0#1#FAIL# 0#0#1#1#0#1#FAIL# 1#0#1#1#0#1#OK#<-
plug reinserted 1#0#1#1#0#1#OK# 1#0#1#1#0#1#OK#
Any ideas about:
1- Why Debian is different (inferior?)
2- How I should change the formatting so the page looks right on
Debian?
Thanks!
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Peter Galbraith, research scientist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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