character above first line discarded

[Anthony Heading]

Hi,

If I have a file with a very simple table:

======= test.t ========
.TS
box;
r l.
foo     bar
plugh   xyzzy
.TE
=======================

which I run as follows:

% groff -t -Tascii test.t | head -5
grotty:test.t:7: character above first line discarded
+--------------+
|  foo   bar   |
|plugh   xyzzy |
+--------------+

I get the unwanted error shown here.  How can I
avoid this error?

Thanks

Anthony

version info:

% groff -v
GNU groff version 1.18.1
Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GNU groff comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
You may redistribute copies of groff and its subprograms
under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING.

called subprograms:

GNU troff (groff) version 1.18.1
GNU grops (groff) version 1.18.1



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