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From: jaap+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jaap Akkerhuis)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Eroff and HPdeskjet
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Date: 6 Sep 88 21:23:27 GMT
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>  The Deskjet will NOT do reverse line feeds past 1 or
> 2 lines, thus will NOT do etc.
If I'm not mistaken I seem to remember that the original ditroff distribution
contained the source of a program called dsort, which sorted the output of
troff, so it was garanteed to go in one direction.

Another program doing more or less the same can be found on the berkeley
distribution under the name vsort, since the versatec has no reverse line feeds
at all. The standard vsort sorts old troff output (actually C/A/T-code). But it
can probably adapted to the new troff output format without too much problems.

Sorting the troff output will solve the problems with reverse feeding as
apparently the deskjet has.

        jaap