Re: [Groff] Re: grops and grohtml problems on vista

[walter harms]

Efraim Yawitz schrieb:
> 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?
> 

according to the man page (i hope that m$ did not break specs) that means the 
"mode" argument
is wrong. perhaps you can add a message like:
/* adjust to your needs !*/
   fprintf("fdopen mode(%s):%s",mode,strerror(errno));


re,
 wh