Re: [Groff] Fw: Installing/Running groff-1.21 on W7 x64

[John W. Smay]

Here is the attempt using Windows Command Prompt
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Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.
Here is groff and troff run from the Command Prompt
C:\Users\jws>cd jws.t

C:\Users\jws\jws.t>C:\Applications\groff-1.21\bin\groff.exe -v
GNU groff version 1.21
Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GNU groff comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
You may redistribute copies of groff and its subprograms
under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING.

called subprograms:

C:\Applications\groff-1.21\bin\groff.exe: couldn't exec troff: Permission 
denied


Now try troff --help
C:\Users\jws\jws.t>C:\Applications\groff-1.21\bin\troff.exe --help
usage: 
C:\Applications\groff-1.21\bin\troff.exe -abcivzCERU -wname -Wname -dcs -
ffam -mname -nnum -olist
      -rcn -Tname -Fdir -Idir -Mdir [files...]

Now try grotty.exe -v (works on my 1.17 env)
C:\Users\jws\jws.t>C:\Applications\groff-1.21\bin\grotty.exe -v
Access is denied.

C:\Users\jws\jws.t>

but try the older 1.17 installation
C:\Users\jws\jws.t>C:\Applications\groff\bin\grotty.exe -v
GNU grotty (groff) version 1.17.2

C:\Users\jws\jws.t>
Works fine again
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email or if it matters

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <address@hidden>
To: "John W. Smay" <address@hidden>
Cc: <address@hidden>; "Werner LEMBERG" <address@hidden>
Sent: Sunday, October 06, 2013 12:48 PM
Subject: Re: [Groff] Fw: Installing/Running groff-1.21 on W7 x64


> [Please keep the list on the CC.]
>
> > From: "John W. Smay" <address@hidden>
> > Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2013 12:05:23 -0700
> >
> > Eli, As you suggest I changed ownership from Administrators to smay8/jws 
> > in
> > all groff-1.21 directories and files, but results are the same, groff.exe
> > seems not to have permission to execute troff.exe.
>
> There are no permissions on Windows for one program to invoke
> another.  Permissions belong only to users who run those programs.
>
> Can you invoke troff.exe directly from the cmd.exe prompt?  E.g., try
> "troff --help".  If you can invoke troff like that, then the problem
> has nothing to do with permissions of troff.exe itself.
>
> I would also try running grotty.exe from the command line.
>
> If running troff.exe and grotty.exe from the command line works,
> please show your entire environment (type "set > env.txt" from the
> cmd.exe prompt and post env.txt).
>
> Also, which program did you use to unpack the groff-1.21-w32-bin.zip
> archive?  Did that program preserve the directory structure recorded
> in the zip file?
>
> > Running all this from an MKSToolKit Korn shell,  will perhaps try from
> > cygwin/bin/bash.exe in a few days when I get that tuned up.
>
> Please try running from the Windows cmd.exe shell.  I don't know what
> will MKS shell or Cygwin Bash do to Groff, I never tried.

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