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From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>
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To: Gerd Truschinski <gt@freebsd.first.gmd.de>
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Subject: cpp - manpage or shellscript
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Gerd Truschinski writes:
>the cpp manpage told me that
> $ cpp t.c xxx
>will create the outputfile xxx.
>
>But the output is on stdout and I get the error message
> cpp: xxx: No such file or directory
>
>Who is wrong, the manpage or the shell script in /usr/bin/cpp?

The manpage is for /usr/libexec/cpp.