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From: bamford@ihlpf.ATT.COM (Harold E. Bamford)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: {n,pt}roff with mm on suns
Keywords: mm macros, {n,{p,}t}roff, sun 4
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Date: 31 Mar 89 20:02:16 GMT
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Reply-To: bamford@ihlpf.UUCP (Harold E. Bamford)
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
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In article <2391@lll-lcc.UUCP> scowles@lll-lcc.llnl.gov (Sid Cowles) writes:
>i would like very much to use memorandum macros with nroff and
>ptroff on a sun 4.  unfortunately, when i do, i get unusable page
>numbers.  the page numbers come out with about 102 leading zero's
>in spite of specifying .af P 1 before any page numbers are printed.

The problem is that the nroff/troff available on the SUNs do not support
all of the commands available on AT&T nroff/troff.  The MM macros depend
upon this command (I forget which one it is) so the easiest solution is
to get an AT&T version of nroff/troff.

Sorry.

-- Harold Bamford