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From: stan@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Stan Osborne)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Printing Sybase Docs
Summary: formating and pringing bugs fixed
Message-ID: <843@toaster.SFSU.EDU>
Date: 23 Aug 90 02:56:54 GMT
References: <1990Aug22.162141.25824@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <6607@milton.u.washington.edu>
Organization: San Francisco State University
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In article <6607@milton.u.washington.edu> wrb@milton.u.washington.edu (William Barker) writes:
>
>I'm trying to print the Sybase system admin docs. For several of the
>files, when using the "ptroff -msyb -rT1 filename" command, the doc
>doesn't finish printing, and I get the message "can't open file /x.1.size",
>where x is the chapter number of the doc.  Anybody else seen this, and more
>importantly, anybody got a cure??  By the way, some of the docs print just
>fine.

As released the Sybase docs (troff source) are a mess.  I guess they really 
want you to buy paper from them.  :-)

I have cleaned these documents up.  (Yes there are bugs in their troff 
source code.)  Then I ran them through a version of ditroff 2.0 on this
cube that produces good EPSF (.eps) files.   (The ptroff that comes with 
the cube is based on a very old version of troff.)  I'm not quite sure how 
to make the EPS version of the Sybase manuals available.  (I have to check 
on the legality of putting copyrighted documents out for anonymous ftping.)

I will be working on finishing up the manuals later this evening.

I could at a minimum release patches.  But that does not fix the problem
of the juvenile (brain dead) troff provided with the cube.  (People with
cubes do have quite an appetite for good PostScript. )

Comments or suggestions welcomed. 

Stan
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