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From: bd@hpsemc.HP.COM (bob desinger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Nroff driver for LaserJet
Message-ID: <1250001@hpsemc.HP.COM>
Date: 1 Mar 88 22:23:28 GMT
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Organization: HP SEMC, Cupertino, CA
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Scott Boyd (scottb@hpcvlx.HP.COM) writes:
> Hmmm... you really don't need a specific driver for the LaserJet to have 
> nroff work, but you do have to tell nroff to use only 60 lines per page.
> This can be done by adding '-RL60' to the command line. For instance to 
> print out a document using the MM macros. The following command would work:
> 	nroff -mm -RL60 filename 

Scott means "-rL60", where the `r' is lower case.  (It means "set
register L to 60," and L holds the page length.  From the command
line, you can set only the single-letter registers.)  The book
_Unix_Text_Processing_ by Dougherty and O'Reilly tells more about
this.

-- bd