Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!ptsfa!nonvon!mc68020 From: mc68020@nonvon.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.text Subject: Re: Need a little info for nroff drivers please! Message-ID: <602@nonvon.UUCP> Date: Thu, 9-Jul-87 01:58:40 EDT Article-I.D.: nonvon.602 Posted: Thu Jul 9 01:58:40 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 11-Jul-87 17:44:56 EDT References: <225@cjsa.UUCP> Organization: NONVON Systems Computer Research Group Lines: 18 Xref: utgpu comp.unix.questions:2804 comp.text:850 in article <225@cjsa.UUCP>, jeff@cjsa.UUCP (C. Jeffery Small) says: > > I have been struggling with the problem of writing nroff driver-tables > recently and have received much helpful information from a number of you > out there in netland. I am preparing to assemble the useful tools and > documentation which I have accumulated, and post them as a package to the > net. However, I would like to tie up a few loose ends first. > I too am working with this problem. I recently received (through the courtesy of Guy Harris @ Sun) table.c and elbat.c and the support stuff that comes with it. I set things up in what appears to be a perfectly reasonable fashion, but when I use the table generated, it takes what should be a ~~13K output file and turns it to something more like 2-5K, max, usually shorter (2-300 bytes) of mostly either 0x30's or 0x00's. What the )(*&^)*(&^(*&^*(&^*(&^*(&^(*&^*( am I doing wrong????????