Oversight in Psroff patch 5 through 7. (Suns particularly)

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From: Chris Lewis
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1990 22:48

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If you are running psroff patch 5 through 7 on a system who's troff 
doesn't support the "-T" option (certain Suns in particular), psroff
will generate drastically truncated output.  troff is aborting with
an error message, but the error message is swallowed by the drivers
in troff2ps (stderr is used for communicating special directives (eg:
font changes) to the backend)

Edit psroff.sh and search for the lines that have the "-T$type" option
being passed to troff, as in:

	$troff -t -T$type

Change the "-T$type" to "-F/usr/lib/font/$type".  [But NOT in the
arguments to troff2ps!]

make and reinstall.

This will be a configuration option in patch 8 - real soon now.

Patch 8 should also include better support for Jetroff.
-- 
Chris Lewis, Elegant Communications Inc, {uunet!attcan,utzoo}!lsuc!eci386!clewis
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From: clewis@eci386.uucp (Chris Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs,alt.sources
Subject: Oversight in Psroff patch 5 through 7. (Suns particularly)
Message-ID: <1990Jan19.224807.7490@eci386.uucp>
Date: 19 Jan 90 22:48:07 GMT
Reply-To: clewis@eci386.UUCP (Chris Lewis)
Organization: R. H. Lathwell Associates: Elegant Communications, Inc.
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