Problem with X11R5 man pages on RS6000

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From: J. Scott Berg
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 22:17

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I have an RS6000, running aix 3.1.7.  Here's a section from the xterm
manpage for X11R5:

.IR curses (3x)
bug mentioned above.
.TP 8
.BI \-e " program \[arguments \.\.\.\]"
This option specifies the program (and its command line arguments) to be
run in the \fIxterm\fP window.  It also sets the window title and icon


Notice the \[; nroff on the rs6000 wants that to mean that the
following 2 or 4 characters are a hex character sequence, and thus
gives garbage.  Anybody know how to fix this?  I have no understanding
of nroff.  I tried pumping it throught groff, and it was equally
unhappy.  nroff on a sun seems to work just fine.  Thanks

				-Scott Berg

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