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From: zap@nada.kth.se (Svante Lindahl)
Newsgroups: comp.text,comp.sys.pyramid
Subject: Re: ditroff on Pyramid
Message-ID: <324@draken.nada.kth.se>
Date: 31 Mar 88 18:51:56 GMT
References: <318@draken.nada.kth.se> <17471@pyramid.pyramid.com>
Organization: The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
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Summary: ditroff solved - where is makedev?

In response to <318@draken.nada.kth.se> by larsa@nada.kth.se (Lars
Andersson)  csg@pyramid.pyramid.com (Carl S. Gutekunst) wrote in
<17471@pyramid.pyramid.com>: 

[ About troff in the att universe on a Pyramid running OSx 4.0 :]
>If it simply dumps core or something equally awful, then you have a corrupted
>executable file. Harass your salesman or your FE to get you a copy that works.
>For general problems/questions, send mail to pyramid!bugs.

Turned out that the /usr/.attbin/troff that was installed from a PTF
was bad, it terminated with a bus error when run.  Reverting back to
the 4.0 distribution fixed that.

Carl also wrote:
>Since we use this software to generate all our documentation (with Adobe's
>Transcript(TM) or AT&T's Imagen Impress(TM) filter as the backend),
>ment "it does not run" needs some elaboration! What OSx release? Which macro
>package, if any? What does your input do? What are you using as a backend? Is
>it a consistent failure, or only under certain conditions?

Lars wants to use Transcript from Adobe as backend, so he tells me
(the sysadmin) to install the required font descriptions in 
/usr/lib/font/devpsc and that there is a makefile distributed with
Transcript that will do it for me.  Well not quite, it requires a
makedev program that I have no idea where to get. Can anyone help me
with this?

This may no longer be appropriate for comp.sys.pyramid and I don't
read comp.text, so please reply by mail.

Svante Lindahl
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