Re: trouble with groff -M

[Werner LEMBERG]

>   The following example shows where the `-M' trouble originates.
> 
> echo '.ds Test This is a test string\"'>test.tmac
> echo 'Example: \*[Test]' | groff -M. -m test -Tlatin1
> 
>   produces an error:
> troff: fatal error: can't find macro file test

On my SuSE 7.3 linux box this works.  Please try

  echo 'Example: \*[Test]' | strace -f -ff -F -o test.strace \
  groff -M. -m test -Tlatin1

and check the `open' calls in the `test.straceXXX' files.  Maybe this
helps to locate the problem.

>   But but if you copy, link, or move `test.tmac' to `tmac.test' groff
>   will succeed.
> 
> mv test.tmac tmac.test
> echo 'test: \*[Test]' | groff -M. -m test -Tlatin1
> 
>   produces
> Example: This is a test string

Strange.  This is the old behaviour of troff.  What does `troff
--version' say?


    Werner