From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen) Subject: Re: Where is a complete groff? Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1993 14:30:21 GMT
In article <1993Apr1.201430.29551@bernina.ethz.ch>, almesber@bernina.ethz.ch (Werner Almesberger) writes:
| Too bad, you should only have known the following, quite intuitive facts:
|
| - dvips is hidden in /usr/TeX/bin
Try /usr/TeX/src/dvips/vdips.c, make and install. Then it's in bin.
| - dvips appears to be unable to read from a non-file. At least, it
| insists on lseeking on it, even if invoked with -f or -f1
|
| So printing an nroff document on a PostScript printer is as easy as
| typing ...
|
| groff -man -Tdvi xtetris.1 >xtetris.dvi
| /usr/TeX/bin/dvips -f <xtetris.dvi | lpr
After I build dvips from source it *still* insisted on trying to use
one of the X libraries (libXt.so.3 I think), which is *not* intuitive.
Somehow the connection escapes me.
-- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345