bob@obiwan.UUCP (Bob Willcox) (11/25/89)
I have been attempting to get jetroff (version 1.1, patch level 4) working on my Microport System V/AT (ver 2.4) system for awhile now and have run into a couple of problems that seem to point to either my troff command and/or my man macros. First, if I execute troff with more than a single -m macro name specified: troff -man -mjetroff -Tjet filename it will eventually hang, waiting to read from stdin if the input was specified as a filename. Note that this fails the same way regardless of what two macro specifcations I attempt. If reading from stdin (via pipe or redirection): troff -man -mjetroff -Tjet <filename it does not hang, but only writes the following on output: x T jet x res 300 1 1 x init x font 1 R x font 2 I x font 3 B x font 4 CW x font 5 S x font 6 ST x font 7 SI x trailer V0 x stop Finally, if I specify the macro file as well as the input file on the command line as two filenames: troff -man -Tjet /usr/lib/tmac/tmac.jetroff filename it does better, but the -man macros do not produce the expected results. The headers and footers as well as the ".SH NAME" and the line following it missing from the output, and all other ".SH" macro specifications seem to suck up the line immediately following them onto their line. Note that a similar test with the -ms macro package apears to work correctly. The file attributes of my version of troff and man macros are as follows: -rwxr-xr-x 1 bin bin 52490 May 30 1985 /usr/bin/troff -rw-r--r-- 1 bin bin 7352 Jun 5 1985 /usr/lib/macros/an -rw-r--r-- 1 bin bin 73 Jun 5 1985 /usr/lib/tmac/tmac.an Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, -- Bob Willcox ...!{rutgers|ames}!cs.utexas.edu!romp!obiwan!bob Phone: 512 258-4224