ljb@fai.UUCP (Larry Boggis FAI N.C.) (09/25/90)
We recently purchased a Imagen 6320 Turbo printer (LAN Attached) ... a very nice printer once it works ... My question concerns the UNIX Host Software that accompanied this printer, specifically the iroff and itroff software. The iroff command calls troff with a '-F' option ... our troff, in all its glory, does not support a '-F' option. I, personally, am not that familiar with 'offs' (nroff, troff, iroff, itroff, etc.) but I have users who swear by it. If anyone out there has a similiar setup or knows of what I am talking about, please send help. Any information would help. Thanks.
clewis@ecicrl.UUCP (Chris Lewis) (09/27/90)
In article <2939@fai.UUCP> ljb@fai.fai.com (Larry Boggis FAI N.C.) writes: >nice printer once it works ... My question concerns the UNIX Host Software >that accompanied this printer, specifically the iroff and itroff software. >The iroff command calls troff with a '-F' option ... our troff, in all its >glory, does not support a '-F' option. The -F option tells CAT troff (not ditroff) where to find the width tables (ft? and ft?? files) for each of the fonts. It's invoked ala: -F<directory>/ftXX Troff usually has it's default widths in /usr/lib/font; -F/usr/lib/font/ftXX means the same thing. Some versions of troff support -F even if their man pages don't mention it. If your troff doesn't support -F, it'll probably support -T (What version of UNIX are you? Xenix?). -T<type> means /usr/lib/font/<type>/ft* files. This version of troff doesn't permit you to supply arbitrary path names for the directory of width tables. If you must use -T, put the width tables in a subdirectory of /usr/lib/font, and specify the directory name (not full path) to -T. Special note: the above applies only to CAT Phototypesetter (aka CAT, aka "old") troff. New troff (aka ditroff) uses entirely different format width tables, and even tho it supports -T, it will probably not be what you're (or your software's) expecting - width table format is entirely different between old and new troff. Actually, there's also some variation between old troffs too. If you type: troff CAT Troff will say "typesetter busy" and quit, and new troff will just emit a character or two and then hang until you hit delete. If you have old troff, and -T results in some really strange character spacing, drop me a line and I'll assist. -- Chris Lewis, Phone: (416)-294-9253 UUCP: uunet!utai!lsuc!ecicrl!clewis Moderator of the Ferret Mailing List (ferret-request@eci386) Psroff mailing list (psroff-request@eci386)
brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) (09/30/90)
In article <2939@fai.UUCP> ljb@fai.fai.com (Larry Boggis FAI N.C.) writes:
<We recently purchased a Imagen 6320 Turbo printer (LAN Attached) ... a very
<nice printer once it works ... My question concerns the UNIX Host Software
<that accompanied this printer, specifically the iroff and itroff software.
<The iroff command calls troff with a '-F' option ... our troff, in all its
<glory, does not support a '-F' option. I, personally, am not that familiar
<with 'offs' (nroff, troff, iroff, itroff, etc.) but I have users who swear
<by it. If anyone out there has a similiar setup or knows of what I am
<talking about, please send help. Any information would help.
To me it looks like the iroff program is looking for the AT&T Documentor's
Workbench 2.0+. The -F option is used to set the default font family.
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