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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: Why troff?
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Date: Fri, 20-Feb-87 17:31:08 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 20 17:31:08 1987
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Keywords: TeX, troff

> Another thing about troff is: when one needs 10 copies of the same formatted
> output, one has to run troff 10 times (or unless you photocopy). But with TeX,
> you just print the dvi file 10 times, not having to re-process the input file
> again. Or am I wrong about this?

Yes.  Unless your troff is doing something bizarre, capturing troff output
so you can send it to the device multiple times is no harder than capturing
TeX output.
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