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From: gt5431b@prism.gatech.EDU (Michael J. Gourlay)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: no output from groff 0.6 on HPUX 7.0 on series 300
Keywords: gnu groff help troff series 300 HPUX
Message-ID: <17099@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 14 Nov 90 21:24:55 GMT
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Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology Dept of Physics
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Hello,

	I have not noticed anyone posting to this group about groff.  Has
anyone got groff to work on an HP?  I built it, and all of it compiled except
for groff.c, so I use groff.sh as the front end.  I compiled it with g++ 1.37.1
and it went trough make, with only a few weird errors where some object files
apparently did not get into the libgroff.a archive, so I linked the problem
object by putting the .o files in the g++ command line.

	After it was all built and installed, I tried to groff gnu's man pages
for groff with this:

groff -Tascii -man /usr/local/manman1/groff.1

and after about 10 or 20 seconds, it came back to the command prompt.  No man
age was ever printed.  I also tried using the ms macros with some files I
printed usinf ditroff, and the same thing happened; It waited, then did
nothing.  I occasionally got core dumps.  Sun folks don't seem to have this
problem.  Is it just me, or is it HP?  More to the point, what do I do now?

	Help is apreciated.

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Michael J. Gourlay                                gt5431b@prism.gatech.edu
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