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From: ado@elsie.UUCP (Arthur David Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.4bsd
Subject: nroff prints extra page if final page exactly fills--who has fix?
Message-ID: <7475@elsie.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 31-Aug-87 17:01:15 EDT
Article-I.D.: elsie.7475
Posted: Mon Aug 31 17:01:15 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 4-Sep-87 06:27:07 EDT
Organization: NIH-LEC, Bethesda, MD
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Keywords: nroff

Our MORE/bsd 4.3 system's nroff, troff, and /usr/5bin/troff commands share
the irritating habit of producing an extra page if the final page of a document
fills exactly, as witness this output from "script":

	Script started on Mon Aug 31 16:52:48 1987
	$ nroff << EOF
	> .pl .5i
	> .nf
	> One
	> Two
	> Three
	> EOF
	One
	Two
	Three



	$ exit

	script done on Mon Aug 31 16:53:10 1987

The three blank lines between "Three" and "$ exit" above constitute the bogus
extra "page" (since we've defined pages to be three lines long here).

This bad habit is at its worst when using -me; any headers or footers will be
printed on the bogus extra page.

Surely someone knows how to overcome this bad habit; if it's you, I'd appreciate
hearing from you by mail.

				--ado