[Groff] Re: grops and grohtml problems on vista

[Efraim Yawitz]

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 7:01 PM, bousch ster <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>    It seems grops and grohtml are not working for me on Windows Vista even
with
>    UAC disabled.
>
>    this command: groff -p hello.pic > hello.ps
>    results in: grops<standard input>:4:fatal error: fdopen: Invalid
argument
>
>    the command: groff -Thtml -p hello.pic > hello.ps
>    results in: pre-grohtml:fatal error: fdopen: Invalid argument
>
>    the command: groff -Tdvi -p hello.pic > hello.dvi
>    does work.
>
>    The exact same commands on my Windows XP machine work fine.
>    I'm using groff-1.20.1.
>
>    Any tips?
>
>From looking at the code, it seems that grops is not succeeding in creating
a temporary file, I think in the current directory.  Do you have some
permissions issue that could cause this?