From: jimbo@crseo.ucsb.edu (Jim Davidson) Subject: Re: Where is a complete groff? Date: 1 Apr 1993 22:17:27 GMT
In article <C4t78s.9nH@crdnns.crd.ge.com>, davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen) writes:
|> 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
|>
Now now, calm down - everything will be all right.
I ftp'ed groff 1.07 from gatekeeper.dec.com and it compiled just fine with
Postscript, dvi, and Xwindow drivers. I can make it available over anonymous ftp
if you (or anyone else) would like it. -Jim