Hi Doug,
At 2025-03-27T15:50:50-0400, Douglas McIlroy wrote:
> It seems my reply to Clem went astray. POSIX Part 2, Shell and
> Utilities, is very clear:
>
> 2..2.2.181 text file: A File that contains characters organized into
> one or more lines.
> The lines shall not contain NUL characters ...
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Hi folks,
This thread started on the groff@gnu list, so I'm looping it back in.
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2025-02/msg00088.html
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2025-03/msg00070.html
The formatter, GNU troff:
* catenates its input into a single stream, disre
Hi Doug,
At 2025-02-20T11:56:17-0500, Douglas McIlroy wrote:
> info groff gives semantics for including nonempty files that don't end
> with newline. Such files violate the Posix definition of text file.
>
> Although groff is certainly justified in providing semantics for
> non-Posix text, I sugge
