On Thursday, 29 January 2026 00:23:43 GMT G. Branden Robinson wrote: > "Typing Documents on the Unix System: Using the -ms macros with Troff > and Nroff", M.E. Lesk, 13 November 1978: > > Warning: You can't just begin a document with a line of text. Some > -ms command must precede any text input. >
You and me both initially forgot that. Although, I did pretty soon remember, because I was able to attach the document to the bug, and let you know that a correctly structured ms document avoided the core dump - I thought it would help in your diagnosis. > However, a core dump should not be GNU troff's means of informing you > that you erred. > > I'll test my excessively advanced input stream pointer hypothesis > presently. Ooh. I do love an advanced hypothesis. Cheers Deri
