Replying to two emails below: On Fri, 5 Sep 2008, Tadziu Hoffmann wrote:
> > <standard input>:2885: fatal error: input stack limit exceeded > > (probable infinite loop) > > Uh! That appears to be a bug in the way "-man" is being used > (by sourcing andoc.tmac, which then again sources an-old.tmac > in some bizarre fashion). The following works for me: > > zcat /usr/share/man/man8/*.gz | > groff -Tps -t -man-old -rC1 >acro.ps This does finish and they are numbered but now the formatting is broken. Text all dumped to page without any section headers, missing content, unusable. On Fri, 5 Sep 2008, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > Hmm. To analyze that I need the input data. Can you send it to me > offline, possibly reduced to the smallest set which causes the > problem? They are manpages from a NetBSD system. I was able to get it down to nine man pages. I will send a small tar ball to you off-list. tx:man0$ head -9 man8.all | xargs cat | groff -Tps -t -man -rC1 > output.ps <standard input>:2885: fatal error: input stack limit exceeded (probable infinite loop)