# empty out toc.input
toc.input
# run once to get a sample ToC, but page numbers will be off
nroff file > /dev/null 2> toc.input
# run again to get proper page numbers into toc.input
nroff file > /dev/null 2> toc.input
# run a 3rd time to get the right output, ignoring stderr this time
nroff file 2>/dev/null
You know, this whole discussion renews my total puzzlement at why
anyone would use nroff instead of something else... anything else.
Yow!
I know that not everyone likes xml2rfc, but I don't even want to think
about nroff.
Barry
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