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Re: (?) help with troff... it's driving me NUTS!

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From: Alex Blakemore
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1992 17:57
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In article <1992Oct2.130938.22072@cs.uno.edu> emurphy@cs.uno.edu (Edward Murphy) writes:
> is there *any* type of troff viewer anywhere that i can use on the NeXT?
> have some troff man pages for procmail that i'm trying to get  
> printed/viewed/whatever in some decent manner.

ptroff -man foobar.1 > foobar.ps; open foobar.ps # views it
ptroff -man foobar.1 | lpr # prints it
man -t foobar # same as above if foobar.1 is in your MANPATH
              # on other systems man -t requires some environment vars
nroff -man foobar.1 | less # look at a terminal formatted version
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Subject: Re: (?) help with troff... it's driving me NUTS!
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