Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!micor!latour!ecicrl!clewis
From: clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Problem With "mp"
Message-ID: <1187@ecicrl.ocunix.on.ca>
Date: 23 Jan 91 07:00:42 GMT
References: <1991Jan22.021416.12090@mel.dit.csiro.au>
Reply-To: clewis@ecicrl.UUCP (Chris Lewis)
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In article <1991Jan22.021416.12090@mel.dit.csiro.au> ins215n@mel.dit.csiro.au (Yong Shyang Liaw) writes:


>I have been playing around with "mp" program for sometimes. Sometimes,
>When I print Unix manual pages using mp(e.g man tar | mp -f), only
>the first few pages are printed and the rest get aborted. I have checked
>the output of mp and it seems to be O.k (i.e in the form that it shall be.).
>However, when I delete the
>control characters found in the Unix manual pages, all things are printed. 

Older versions of MP were prone to running out of VM several pages
into a listing.  Deletion of control characters probably works by
reducing the number of pages.  See if you can find a newer version
of MP.
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