The BOLD entries in manpages

[Andy Heffernan]

In article <1991Feb7.154751.18616 at unhd.unh.edu> rg at msel.unh.edu (Roger Gonzalez) writes:
[...]
>out as expected.  Right now I'm running SunOS 4.1.  I looked at the output
>from nroff -man with a hex dumper, and the underline codes are there, but
>not anything where the bold should be!  I had previously assumed that the
>'more' command was eating it, but its not even getting that far!

Your man macros are probably checking that they are being processed
by troff before doing the emboldening.

Something like:
	.deB
	.ift .ft3


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