Re: MinGW and gropdf (Deri James)

[Deri James]

On Monday 15 Aug 2011 13:06:19 Gerrit A. Smit TI wrote:
> Might be some environment setting by groff which you won't get when
> setting the pipeline manually.
> 
> Gerrit A. Smit
> Beheer Technische Infrastructuur
> 

Hmmm, I suspect you are right. My current hypothesis is that the difference 
between starting gropdf separately by setting up the pipeline manually and 
letting groff set up the pipeline automatically is that the spawnvp() in 
pipeline.c uses microsoft's CMD.exe in some way to run the .bat which in turn 
runs perl to run gropdf, by which time the automatic conversion of LF to CRLF 
has been turned back on. How I can circumvent this situation is stumping me at 
the moment. There may be something I can do with COMSPEC to help? Thank you 
for your suggestion.

Cheers 

Deri