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From: syd@DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: *.guide files
Message-ID: <1990Sep7.001833.22781@DSI.COM>
Date: 7 Sep 90 00:18:33 GMT
References: <836@ki.UUCP>
Reply-To: syd@DSI.COM
Organization: Datacomp Systems, Inc.  Huntingdon Valley, PA
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dwatts@ki.UUCP (Dan Watts) writes:
:I've recently built elm on a Sun 4 and have been unable to get the
:Ref.guide and other *.guide files converted into something that I
:can read with 'more'.  When I run the makefile, I get an error from
:troff:

:No /dev/cat: try -t or -a.

:I editted the makefile and put in '-a' so now it doesn't error. The
:output however is really unreadable.  An example follows.  As you can
:see, the output lines appear longer than 80 columns.  There are also
:many instances of "\(ru".  What is it that I should do to get these
:into a readable format?

Try using nroff instead of troff.  Troff is for driving the phototypesetter
not for the screen, use nroff as your text formatter.
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