Re: [Groff] Trouble switching to groff, macro gives syntax error...

[Anton Shterenlikht]

>From address@hidden Wed Sep 16 12:10:02 2015
>
>Why use head(1)?  Why did Berkeley even bother to create head when sed
>already existed and had the functionality?

I didn't know that.

>I'm assuming you know about the SIGPIPE, or EPIPE return from write(2),
>that occurs when sed closes its stdin, nroff's stdout, and how that
>ripples back through the pipeline, causing yes(1) to stop?

No, I don't. This really was my question.
>From your answer I see it's not trivial.

Thanks

Anton