Re: Groff bug: echo foo | groff -Pbar

[John Gardner]

Does it make a difference if you add a prologue file named `bar`? From
grops(1):

*-P**prologue-file*

Use the file *prologue-file* (in the font path) as the prologue
instead of the default prologue file *prologue*.


The error I get with groff 1.22.4 is different:

$ echo foo | groff -Pbar
grops: can't open file 'bar'


What platform are you running? Did you compile Groff manually, or install
it with a package-manager?

On Mon, 28 Sep 2020 at 02:45, <hackerb9@member.fsf.org> wrote:

> Using groff 1.22.4, groff complains and then dumps core when I do this:
>
>     $ echo foo | groff -Pbar
>     troff: fatal error: error writing output file
>     groff: troff: Signal 11 (core dumped)
>
> Is it just me or does that happen for everyone?
>
> —b9
>