Re: [Groff] Fw: groff and Vista privileges

[Larry Kollar]

John W. Smay wrote:

> After a week of thrashing I have found Vista's User Access Control  
> (UAC) and
> that it can be disabled.  This allowed all my gnu programs, groff.exe,
> enscript.exe,  to run satisfactorily, but of course disables this  
> important
> security of Windows Vista.

8-o Kind of like cutting off your ear to fix an earache!

> TNote that I am running  groff-1.17.2 while I note that there is a  
> 1.19.2
> available in which this problem may have been fixed, though looking  
> at the
> dates of 1.19.2 and the arrival date of Vista, it seems doubtful.   
> Thanks for your
> inputs.  Do you know the right way to notify the appropriate gnu  
> folks --
> though surely it is known and  probably been addressed this already.

Use the mailing list at address@hidden -- there are a also couple of  
people there who use XP or Vista regularly and might have better ideas.

-- Larry