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

[Boudewijn]

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));

I'm not really set up for compiling anything...

Regards, Boudewijn