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From: rns@mullauna.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Robert Noel STURROCK)
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Subject: troff -> laserwriter. how??
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Date: 9 May 91 12:13:14 GMT
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Please pardon my ignorance, but i dont know a thing about laserprinters or
postscript.  However, i have access to an apple laserwriter connected to a
macintosh se.  A fairly large project which i am involved in requires some
documentation.  I want to use *roff (with MM macros) to do this documenting.
I have had a fair bit of experience with nroff, since i run it on my 286
at home, however, ive never tried to use troff to output stuff to a laserprinter.  

My question is this:

	Is there a way i can get my document from my pc at home (in troff
	format) to the mac for laserprinting?  ie.  how do i get troff to
	generate a file suitable for the laserprinter, and given that, how
	do i send that file to the laserprinter?

	please note that i dont have any drivers for laser printers or
	for generating postscript code, and my version of troff is pretty
	old ... 1897 i think!

thanx in advance..
rob
(rns@mullauna.cs.mu.oz.au)
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Robert Sturrock
University Of Melbourne, Australia
rns@mullauna.cs.mu.oz.au