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In article <5351@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU>, alhy@unixhub.slac.stanford.edu (J. Scott Berg) writes:
|> 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
|> 

An update to my own posting:  I replace every occurrence of \[ with [,
and it seems to work fine.  Anyone know why the [ was "escaped" in the
original (i.e., will I regret having a program run throught
/usr/local/man and replace every \[ with a [)?  Thanks

				-Scott Berg

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