Keith,
according to Nelson's log files which I now have analyzed completely,
many platforms refuse to run the pdfroff script.
One platform fails with
./pdfroff: 561: Syntax error: "}" unexpected (expecting "fi")
This is definitely a bug of the platform's shell (either tcsh or ksh),
but should be easy to fix.
Many other platforms fail with
./pdfroff: : cannot execute
./pdfroff: --style: not found
./pdfroff: : cannot execute
./pdfroff: --style: not found
./pdfroff: : cannot execute
./pdfroff: --style: not found
./pdfroff: : cannot execute
./pdfroff: --style: not found
./pdfroff: : cannot execute
./pdfroff: --style: not found
./pdfroff: : cannot execute
./pdfroff: --style: not found
./pdfroff: : cannot execute
./pdfroff: --style: not found
./pdfroff: : cannot execute
./pdfroff: --style: not found
./pdfroff: : cannot execute
./pdfroff: --style: not found
pdfroff: unknown option '--style=./cover.ms'
which is probably another shell bug. [Nelson is away for almost two
weeks, so I can't ask him to run tests manually.] I think that the
offending line is
MATCH="$MATCH`echo --$OPT | $GREP "^$OPTNAME"`"
I suspect that the
"...`..."..."`"
combination causes the problem.
Can you reformulate those two expressions? I want to prepare another
pretest in the next few days which Nelson can then run again on his OS
zoo.
Werner
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