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From: lee@ut-ngp.UUCP (William L. Lee III)
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Subject: Re: ditroff sorter
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Date: Sun, 1-Jan-84 18:08:14 EST
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Posted: Sun Jan  1 18:08:14 1984
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Organization: Comp. Center, Univ. of Texas at Austin
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There is a program called "dsort" that comes with ditroff that will sort the
intermediate output file so that your output device will not need to back up.
Some devices cannot back up and dsort seems to do the right thing for them.
Our IBM 6670 laser printer filter always runs dsort before it reads the
ditroff intermediate file (since the 6670 can't back up) and this seems to
work fine for us. Note that there are a few odd comments in the dsort code
about "someone needs to test this and see if it really works" but it has been
"working" for us for almost a year now.

Bill Lee
University of Texas