Hi, > > + | tr '[:cntrl:]' '[ *32]'" > > This might not be portable _enough_.
I wasn't going to bother Ingo, given all the ports-testing he's doing, but since popped up... The time-honoured way to get modern-day `printf foo' is echo foo | tr -d \\012 If groff's still hoping to build on those old systems then that's how to do it. Cheers, Ralph.