seth (09/09/82)
#N:hp-pcd:2900004:000:227 hp-pcd!seth Sep 8 17:49:00 1982 Does anyone know why nroff with the -me package in 4.1bsd generates ESC-9 near the bottom of some pages? Does anyone know how to turn this off? Thanks for any information. --Seth Alford HP Corvallis ucbvax!hplabs!hp-pcd!seth
ARPAVAX:mo (09/14/82)
Why do you get ESC-8 and ESC-9?? Because you didn't tell nroff about any other terminal type (or specified a non-existing one!) and nroff defaulted to Teletype Model 37!!! The driver table for the venerable old 37 uses its half-line motions to make the page number look nice. The moral of the story is ALWAYS specify a terminal to nroff. Additionally, I have modified our at LBL to complain if you specify a non-existing table. The distributed version silently reverts to Model 37. -Mike