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
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 suggest that it should warn when it does so.
Doug
