This is going to be fixed when we complete the integration of the old
4.4 documentation. Unfortunately that has to wait for completion of
some paperwork from Berkeley.

Perry

Richard Rauch <rauch@rice.edu> writes:
> I thought that I'd take a peek at what eqn can do, tonight.
> 
> Regrettably, I find that the GNU eqn is only documented w.r.t. how it
> differs from traditional UNIX eqn.  This makes it hard to use if one
> doesn't know the traditional eqn.
> 
> A quick run of locate turned up the /usr/share/doc/usd/??.eqn*/
> directories.  Alas, those directories are empty.
> 
> 
> Is GNU (or traditional) eqn documented anywhere?  (I mean really
> documented; not just relative to another program for which I have no
> documentation.)
> 
> Failing that, is it possible to get the eqn documentation, now?  (Is that
> included in the ``up through V7'' open-sourcing of UNIX by Caldera?  What
> about the other vacated usd/psd documentation directories?  I've kind of
> assumed that at least some of them are empty at least in part because of
> the AT&T/BSD lawsuit years ago.)
> 
> Since GNU eqn is part of the groff system that we use for documentation,
> it seems that we should have it documented properly.
> 
> 
> (Honestly, this was just a quick poke at it.  I already know TeX
> reasonably well, and TeX looks a great deal less like line-noise than the
> cancel & box sample macros in the eqn man-page.  And I have some good
> documentation on TeX handy.  But...it seems that there's a hole in our
> documentation, and I thought that I'd post here about it.)
> 
> 
>   ``I probably don't know what I'm talking about.'' --rauch@math.rice.edu
> 
> 

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