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From: don@seila.UUCP (Don Kossman)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: nroff/mm problem
Keywords: .SP .sp top-of-page
Message-ID: <372@seila.UUCP>
Date: 22 Aug 88 06:22:00 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: SEI Information Technology, LA, CA
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this is driving us crazy:

how do you force nroff (using the mm macro package)
to leave n spaces at the top of a page?  .sp and .SP seem
to have no effect.  we've RTFM (several of them) and have
had no luck.  we are using page headers and footers and i
think that's what's causing the problem, but don't know
how to solve it (beyond inserting an empty table with the
right number of lines...)

environment is ultrix 2.0; i've tried another mm macro
package (sco xenix 2.2) and had the same problem;
i'm pretty sure both packages are pre-DWB 2.0.  

what are we doing wrong?

-- 
Don Kossman, SEI Information Technology, Los Angeles
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