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From: cck@deneb.ucdavis.edu (Earl H. Kinmonth)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: The me nroff/troff macro package.
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Date: 20 Aug 88 16:03:04 GMT
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In article <672@force10.UUCP> erskine@force10.UUCP (Neil Erskine) writes:
>but have had no luck.  I put the files where I think they ought to go (tmac.e
>in /usr/lib/tmac, and the others in /usr/lib/me), and say "nroff -me",  it
>is as though I just said nroff.  If I say "cat tmac.e source.me | nroff",
>I get ZERO, nothing.

Try

nroff macro_file(s) text_file(s)

I've not used the me macros, but I did download a local ms package,
install it, and get it to work with no problems. Just in case the nroff
version you have believes that the only two macro packages are ms and
mm, you might try renaming the ms items.