John W. Smay wrote:
After a week of thrashing I have found Vista's User Access Control
(UAC) and
that it can be disabled. This allowed all my gnu programs, groff.exe,
enscript.exe, to run satisfactorily, but of course disables this
important
security of Windows Vista.
8-o Kind of like
John W. Smay wrote:
Your reply looked like just the ticket, so logical ... but
after defining GROFF_TMPDIR and noting that the others you
mentioned in the docs were already defined in places I have no
trouble writing, still no go !!
smay7% pwd
C:/Users/jws/jws.t
smay7% echo $HOME
C:/U
On Thursday 07 February 2008 06:34, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> I think that the program is trying to write intermediate files in the
> C:/ directory. With Vista, if I otherwise try to write or save to
> this directory a window pops up asking for confirmation that I really
> want to write to this rest
> ... I just got an new Dell XPS laptop with Vista. On
> this machine with this operating system I cannot get
> groff to complete. ...
> I think that the program is trying to write
> intermediate files in the C:/ directory.
Groff does generate some temporary files. I'm not sure
how the enviro
