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
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