[Groff] Re: grops and grohtml problems on vista

[Efraim Yawitz]

On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 7:00 PM, Ralph Corderoy <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> I see that the two that fail have hello.ps in common whereas the one
> that works is hello.dvi.  Is it possible that the Windows "shell" (I've
> not used Windows so this is a punt in the dark) is having problems
> arranging the re-direction out to hello.ps and consequently the fdopen()
> is failing inside one of the groff programs?
>
> IOW, is there a hello.ps already present that cannot be overwritten for
> some reason?  Another way of testing this would be to see if the command
>
>    groff -Tdvi -p hello.pic > hello.ps
>
> fails when it worked above when re-directing out to hello.dvi.
>
I don't think that this is it since the only place where the call to
fdopen() and the error message quoted appear are in the function to
create a temp file, as I wrote before.

If I get a chance, I will try to compile a version with the diagnostic
mentioned earlier.

Ephraim