Re: [Groff] Re: tbl--Failure to Open File

[Werner LEMBERG]

> > > If tbl can't open a file, it calls error() rather than fatal().
> > > Is this what is intended?  How can it continue if there are no
> > > data?
> > 
> > Good question.  What's the bevaviour of AT&T tbl?
> 
> Does this answer your question?
> 
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> kairos:~> uname -a
> SunOS kairos 5.8 Generic_108528-18 sun4u sparc SUNW,UltraAX-i2
> kairos:~> which tbl
> /usr/bin/tbl
> kairos:~> tbl </dev/null; echo $?
> 0
> kairos:~> tbl /dev/null ; echo $?
> .ds f. /dev/null
> 0
> kairos:~> tbl /foobar ; echo $?
> .ds f. /foobar
> 
> /foobar: line 1: Can't open file
> tbl quits
> 1
> kairos:~>
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I've now made GNU tbl behave similarly: It will abort if a file can't
be opened.


    Werner