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From: bob@obiwan.UUCP (Bob Willcox)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport,comp.text
Subject: JetRoff on Microport System V/AT still not working for me
Message-ID: <255@obiwan.UUCP>
Date: 24 Nov 89 19:36:26 GMT
Reply-To: bob@obiwan.UUCP (Bob Willcox)
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I have been attempting to get jetroff (version 1.1, patch level 4)
working on my Microport System V/AT (ver 2.4) system for awhile now and
have run into a couple of problems that seem to point to either my troff
command and/or my man macros.

First, if I execute troff with more than a single -m macro name
specified:

    troff -man -mjetroff -Tjet filename

it will eventually hang, waiting to read from stdin if the input was
specified as a filename.  Note that this fails the same way regardless
of what two macro specifcations I attempt.  If reading from stdin (via
pipe or redirection):

    troff -man -mjetroff -Tjet <filename

it does not hang, but only writes the following on output:

    x T jet
    x res 300 1 1
    x init
    x font 1 R
    x font 2 I
    x font 3 B
    x font 4 CW
    x font 5 S
    x font 6 ST
    x font 7 SI
    x trailer
    V0
    x stop

Finally, if I specify the macro file as well as the input file on the
command line as two filenames:

    troff -man -Tjet /usr/lib/tmac/tmac.jetroff filename

it does better, but the -man macros do not produce the expected results.
The headers and footers as well as the ".SH NAME" and the line following
it missing from the output, and all other ".SH" macro specifications
seem to suck up the line immediately following them onto their line.
Note that a similar test with the -ms macro package apears to work
correctly.

The file attributes of my version of troff and man macros are as
follows:

-rwxr-xr-x   1 bin      bin        52490 May 30  1985 /usr/bin/troff
-rw-r--r--   1 bin      bin         7352 Jun  5  1985 /usr/lib/macros/an
-rw-r--r--   1 bin      bin           73 Jun  5  1985 /usr/lib/tmac/tmac.an

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
-- 
Bob Willcox                 ...!{rutgers|ames}!cs.utexas.edu!romp!obiwan!bob
Phone: 512 258-4224