Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ames!vsi1!daver!carpet!bill From: bill@carpet.WLK.COM (Bill Kennedy) Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport Subject: Re: V/AT Text Preparation/Jetroff Summary: mine doesn't work Keywords: troff man pages jetroff Message-ID: <154@carpet.WLK.COM> Date: 21 Sep 88 14:08:52 GMT References: <152@carpet.WLK.COM> <476@uport.UUCP> Distribution: na Organization: W.L. Kennedy Jr. & Associates, Pipe Creek, TX Lines: 33 In article <152@carpet.WLK.COM> I wrote + Has anyone used Microport V/AT troff to produce manual pages? If so, + did they appear to come out right? Which post-processor did you use? In article <476@uport.UUCP>, jmsully@uport.UUCP (John M. Sully) replies: | I've used the -man macros with troff and devps to produce man pages for | UNaXcess, rn, news 2.11 as well as my own man pages and have never | experienced any problems with it... | | Since I have collected jetroff, perhaps I should try printing up the pages | using this combination here. | | John M. Sully I appreciate John's prompt and encouraging reply. I suspect that since he has used the ps post-processor and gotten good results, that one works. I'm eager to hear how it works out with JetRoff because I have verified the results with two different systems and got the same result, i.e. the uPort troff lops off the top the other troff doesn't. I also tried sending the troff output to the other system (my troff is Microport) and he got the same result. It seems unlikely that the JetRoff post-processor is doing the surgery because the same troff source through Textware's DWB and JetRoff produces the desired result. This one's a puzzle and John seems to have the key. BTW John, you can't run the make as he sends it, make chokes on cd and the other make, but if you do it a piece at a time and use -Ml it goes together without a whimper. The $64K question is --- what if you get the same result that we did, who dun it? Who's going to do what about it? Since Rick specifically calls out DWB 2.0 and V/AT DWB is 1.0 could that be the problem? -- Bill Kennedy Internet: bill@ssbn.WLK.COM Usenet: { killer | att | rutgers | uunet!bigtex }!ssbn!bill