Ralph Corderoy writes: > > Apple doesn’t ship any *roff any more. If you look at their > > /usr/bin/man script, they commented out anything to do with groff and > > only rely on mandoc. > > Odd. That doesn't tally with what Ken said earlier. > > https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/nmh-workers/2023-04/msg00008.html > > - Tell MacOS X users to install groff(1) (the man(1) script will try > to call groff if it encounters a warning like this from mandoc) > > Perhaps he's referring to a different man script provided by another > implementation or a different version of macOS?
Not all groff parts were commented out. It will use groff if installed and if mandoc gives an unsupported warning. https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/man/blob/man-46/man/man.sh
