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From: rac@sherpa.uucp (Roger Cornelius)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Where's the "dumb" nroff terminal driver?
Keywords: nroff dumb 80286
Message-ID: <212@sherpa.uucp>
Date: 17 Dec 89 04:38:44 GMT
Organization: Personal System Computing,  St. Petersburg, FL
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The nroff manual page (under the "-Tdevice" option) lists the "dumb"
device as one of the "other" supported devices.  It's for "terminal
types with no special features", and is supposed to invoke col
automatically.  But "nroff -Tdumb" just returns with "Non-existent
terminal type".  There is no "dumb" file in /usr/lib/term where the
other drivers are kept either.

So what happened to the driver for "dumb" devices?  I know I can just
pipe nroff into col, but I've always wondered why this didn't work.
Did SCO just forget to include it?

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Roger A. Cornelius           rac@sherpa            uunet!sherpa!rac