[bug #55695] Troff outputs garbled file names on MS-Windows

[Eli Zaretskii]

URL:
  <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?55695>

                 Summary: Troff outputs garbled file names on MS-Windows
                 Project: GNU troff
            Submitted by: eliz
            Submitted on: Mon 11 Feb 2019 07:25:48 PM IST
                Category: Core
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: Incorrect behaviour
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
         Planned Release: None

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Details:

A command such as this:

      troff -ms \usr\share\man\man1\addr2line.1

when invoked on MS-Windows, produces the following diagnostics:

  \usr\share\man\man1☺ddr2line.1:136: macro error: .TH without .TS H
(recovering)

The funny smiley after "man1" is the glyph produced by emitting a Ctrl-A
(ASCII 0x1) code on the Windows console.  The reason for this is that the
backslashes in the file name are interpreted.

Is the attached patch a good way to fix this?




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Date: Mon 11 Feb 2019 07:25:48 PM IST  Name: DIFFS_troff_backslashes  Size:
800B   By: eliz

<http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/download.php?file_id=46235>

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