Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!rutgers!mailrus!purdue!decwrl!vixie From: vixie@decwrl.dec.com (Paul Vixie) Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs Subject: Re: troff2lj problems Message-ID: <23@volition.dec.com> Date: 11 Aug 88 21:08:36 GMT References: <415@ctisbv.UUCP> <2642@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> <363@uwslh.UUCP> <5334@rpp386.UUCP> Organization: DEC Western Research Lab Lines: 27 In article <5334@rpp386.UUCP> jfh@rpp386.UUCP (The Beach Bum) writes: # plexus, in their transfinite wisdom, renamed the old troff to `otroff' # and the new device independent troff has become `troff'. a quick # check of programs SCO includes with their text processing system # reveals that only one troff is included. and if murphy has his way, # it is the WRONG one ;-) It's fairly common in recent releases of DWB for the old troff to be shipped as "otroff". I wish DWB as shipped with ISC 386/ix had this feature. As it is, my 386/ix system can't run troff to the HP LJ2 because even though I have troff2lj, I don't have otroff. So I use nroff. Bletcherous. Elan's product would no doubt fix this, but it's a _product_ which means it costs _money_ which means I'd rather have something like troff2lj that works with the so-called "device independent" troff. Or if DWB included a post- processor to the C/A/T (which 386/ix's, at least, does not). Anybody got a free solution to this? I've asked ISC for otroff, but they ignored me. Sigh. (Speaking as an individual, DEC doesn't have any 386 systems that I know of.) -- Paul Vixie Digital Equipment Corporation Work: vixie@dec.com Play: paul@vixie.UUCP Western Research Laboratory uunet!decwrl!vixie uunet!vixie!paul Palo Alto, California, USA +1 415 853 6600 +1 415 864 7013