On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 08:30:33PM -0600, Dave Kemper wrote: > On 12/15/20, Dorai Sitaram <ds26...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Thanks Dave, for the suggestion. That doesn't seem to be the problem, > > however, on my machine (Ubuntu 20.10). No-argument cat works as expected. > > Then something peculiar to the Ubuntu groff seems to be behind this. > Ubuntu is a Debian-derived distro, and the concurrent "local timezone" > thread here points out Debian's proclivity to customize groff in > incompatible ways.
The example near the head of the thread works fine for me on both Debian and Ubuntu, and this is not something that we customise. -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.org]