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Re: amusing bug


From: Doug McIlroy
Subject: Re: amusing bug
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2020 09:21:06 -0400
User-agent: Heirloom mailx 12.5 7/5/10

Ralph pointed out that
        groff -o /dev/null
does behave right. It sits there waiting for input.
Having been trained on the very first groff, I overlooked
the fact that this is the same as
        groff -o/dev/null
separable parameters of flag arguments are a "modern"
innovation. Please excuse my antediluvian hangover.

Doug



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