> I do not know if this is only on my unstable Debian machine but
>       groff -te -Tlatin1 -mandoc /tmp/ll -
> no longer work. I am getting an empty string instead.
> Am I missing something? Is there a work around?
> 
> zcat /usr/share/man/man1/ls.1.gz | groff -te -Tlatin1 -mandoc /tmp/ll -

Has this ever worked?  groff tries to open /tmp/ll *and* the standard
input which apparently fails.

What about this:

  zcat /usr/share/man/man1/ls.1.gz | groff -te -Tlatin1 -mandoc > /tmp/ll

(you can omit the `-' for standard input if you don't have another
input file).


    Werner


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