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From: greely@elm.cis.ohio-state.edu (J Greely)
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Subject: A/UX troff (was Re: A/UX disk I/O (real numbers))
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Date: 26 Feb 88 03:49:32 GMT
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In article <1607@uhccux.UUCP> uhccux!medix!martin (Brian K. Martin, M.D.) writes:
>Some other interesting points...  Although Apple bundles in the
>Documenter's Work Bench, their troff doesn't produce Postscript
>output.  You still need to buy one of the 3rd-party troff packages that
>supports Postscript.

The product release that was posted a few weeks ago explicitly stated
that the TranScript package was included with A/UX.  This includes a set
of filters that transforms Troff output to PostScript.  It's not as
good as having a native PostScript version, but it works quite nicely.

  The only problem I've had with using TranScript (on a Sun 3/50) is
that the pscat filter (C/A/T to PostScript) seems to have some
misconceptions about page size (troff -man -t foo.1 | pscat | lpr
should print a manual page for foo, but the page footers disappear).

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