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From: larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Documentation on -man macro and changing pagelength in -man
Summary: Nroff/troff version 1.37
Keywords: *roff -man macros documentation pagelength
Message-ID: <3866@kitty.UUCP>
Date: 19 Jul 90 04:36:31 GMT
References: <3865@kitty.UUCP> <Jul.18.23.13.17.1990.13323@paul.rutgers.edu>
Organization: Recognition Research Corp., Clarence, NY
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In article <Jul.18.23.13.17.1990.13323@paul.rutgers.edu>, jac@paul.rutgers.edu (Jonathan A. Chandross) writes:
> 
> larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman)
> > For the first time I have had the
> > occasion to want to change the pagelength from something other than
> > the default 66 lines. [...]
> > So, I figure I'll edit the man file that I am
> > writing and just set .pl manually.  Still no joy. [...]
> > How do I set the page length using -man to something other than 66 lines?
> 
> Ummmm, I just tried inserting ".pl 3.0i" at the beginning of the
> adb man page (first one I found).  Sure enough, nroff produced
> output for a page 3.0 inches long.

	I tried it again.  Independently.  This does NOT work, and I
simply do not know why.  I used nroff, but this does not work with
troff, either.

	I took a look at the /usr/lib/macros/an file header, and it says
version 1.37, 12/19/80.  The particular machine I want to run this on
is a 3B2/400 running SVR3.2.  The DWB we are using is from 1986, but
everything else works *fine*, so there has never been a need to install
any newer version.  We use newer troff postprocessors, but the problem
is obviously not there since this won't work on simple nroff output
directed to a file for examination.

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