From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!npois!houxm!houxa!houxi!houxz!ihnp4!laidbak!trsvax!iv Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Title: Re: nroff problem Article-I.D.: trsvax.248 Posted: Fri Mar 11 01:50:48 1983 Received: Thu Mar 17 20:38:27 1983 References: pwa-b.61 Bob, (and the rest of the net) I'm sorry I had to post a follow-up article, but the evil specre of harpo was in our news path to you, and our machine does not know any of the machines listed after harpo. Re: Your nroff problem What is happening is nroff is formatting the file for the terminal you are currently on. This is nice if you wish to view it (This is where the ESC code is coming from). To prevent this, do a 'nroff -me -tlpr'. The '-t' tells nroff what kind of terminal (I think that's what 't' stands for) it is formatting for. If you use -tlpr, then you will get printer output from it instead of terminal output. Does that answer your question? Hope so. "share and enjoy"! John Elliott IV laidbak!trsvax!iv -or- microsoft!trsvax!iv