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authorG. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>2023-04-16 19:51:05 -0500
committerG. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>2023-04-16 20:13:36 -0500
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PROBLEMS: Annotate a control character land mine.
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@@ -368,7 +368,9 @@ Use the `ftr' request. See groff_diff(7).
* I get errors using the Unix -ms macros with groff -e -C.
-Apply this change:
+Apply this change. Be careful of copying and pasting it; literal BEL
+characters (Control+G) appear in the source--this is an AT&T troff idiom
+in output comparisons that is never necessary in GNU troff.
*** /usr/lib/ms/ms.eqn Tue Apr 25 02:14:28 1989
--- ms.eqn Sun Nov 11 10:33:59 1990