[Groff] Re: incompatible change in groff 1.18

[Werner LEMBERG]

> >  . Pass option `-c' to grotty.
> 
> The command line option would be acceptable, but I can't get it to
> work.  I'm using a just-downloaded copy of groff-1.18.1 and the
> invocation
>     groff -c -te -Tlatin1 -man groff.1 > g118-1.txt
> Looking at the output I see escape codes.
> That same command line without the -c but with GROFF_NO_SGR set
> produces the desired c-backspace-c.
> 
> Does the -c option have a bug in groff 1.18.1?

A slight misunderstanding -- option -X of an output device can be
accessed as -P-X from groff.  Thus you have to say

  groff -te -P-c  -Tlatin1 -man groff.1 > g118-1.txt


    Werner