Hi Anthony, > 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
Thanks, that's interesting. Line 375 onwards, https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/man/blob/man-46/man/man.sh#L375 shows how they #ifdef'd __APPLE__ to stop the simple ‘install groff’ message. That message matches Oliver's description of FreeBSD. Instead, they echo a warning to stderr and then sleep for a second to let it be seen. How annoying that delay must be each time one opens the same man page. And from a company that prides themselves on UI. :-) -- Cheers, Ralph.
