misbehavior of groff -o

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From	Doug McIlroy <doug@cs.dartmouth.edu>
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Subject	misbehavior of groff -o
Date	Tue, 17 Mar 2020 08:59:58 -0400
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This command
	groff -o /dev/null
correctly gives the diagnostic
	troff: bad output page list
then loops forever, regardless of the input file.

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