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In article <9636@ncar.ucar.edu> fredrick@acd.UCAR.EDU (Tim Fredrick) writes:
|>|(Scott Heyano) writes:
|>|Scott>  I think psroff requires a true troff with true troff output,
|>|Scott>  and I think the AIX troff is ditroff.
|>
|> (Chris Lewis) writes:

Actually, Ronald Woan wrote this:

|>Chris> Absolutely right, so scratch my psroff idea. Here is exactly what AIX
|>Chris> 3.1 troff supports, according to info:
|>
|>                IBM 3812 Pageprinter II
|>                IBM 3816 Pageprinter
|>                Hewlett Packard LaserJet II with K cartridge

I did write this:

|>To generate Postscript from ditroff, you want either tpscript (c.s.u
|>a few years back) or Transcript from Adobe.  (Though, I might just
|>have psroff working with ditroff input too in the not-to-distant future.
|>Perhaps I should change the name then to "troffs-R-us" ;-)

|I have tried to compile both transcript and tpscript for the Risc-6000 (AIX3.1)
|and they both appear to depend on a "troff" that behaves likes troff's in the
|rest of the BSD UNIX world.  IBM's troff will support the 3 printers listed
|above and in so doing behaves a little like ditroff (but it isn't ditroff).
|Nor is it a real standard-type troff.

I think you're getting very confused here.  BSD troff is CAT troff.  Which
tpscript certainly doesn't support.  (I think transcript supports both
ditroff and CAT troff).  tpscript does not work with CAT troff directly.
But psroff does.  Do you mean "CAT troff" when you say "standard troff"?

If you type: 
	troff
What does it say?  Just hang waiting for input?  (ditroff) or
say something about typesetter busy?  (CAT troff).  What does the
directory structure of /usr/lib/font look like?  Are the files ASCII
or binary?

As far as I'm aware, there are only two types of troff: ditroff
(DWB x.x) and CAT troff (often bundled).  All other forms are derivations
of them (Eg: SoftQuad: ditroff, Ultrix/RISC brain-damaged CAT Troff etc.).
Psroff now works with all variants of CAT troff that I'm aware of.  And,
tpscript works with all variants of ditroff that I know of (modulo
a glitch here and there).

Has IBM invented a new one for AIX 3?  AIX on PS/2's and RT's has CAT
troff which works quite nicely with psroff.

What you might want to do is capture some output of your troff, uuencode
it, and mail it to me, and I should be able to figure out precisely what
it is and what you have to do or get to emit postscript.
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