From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen) Subject: Where is a complete groff? Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1993 14:36:28 GMT
I started to show someone how neat Linux was the other night, by
formatting a troff doc and printing it. I had the latest 99.6 SLS
installed, with all the options, and I was sure I could do it. However,
when I tried to produce PostScript, I was told that I was missing
something. So I decided to generate dvi, and use dvips to make my
PostScript. After generating the file I tried dvips, and it wasn't
there. A bit of looking found the source, and I compiled it. Then I
tried to convert and found that it was trying to load something from an
X library (I don't have X on this machine, it doesn't use the hicolor
card) I didn't have.
By now we've spent an hour on this, so we moved it to the commercial
UNIX I run on another system and ran the conversion there so we could
print. I took the dvi file to work to try dvips there, and the output
was a set of blank pages.
At this point I have totally turned someone off Linux, and convinced
myself there's a good reason to keep commercial UNIX available. The
question is where can I get a version of groff which will directly
produce PostScript output using the options documented in the man pages?
-- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345