ptroff correction (WAS help with troff... it's driving me NUTS!)

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From: Alex Blakemore
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1992 05:17

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I left off an important option (-t) in my previous posting about ptroff.
Thanks to Scott Hess for pointing out my error.
Sorry for any confusion.

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?

I wrote:
> ptroff -man foobar.1 > foobar.ps; open foobar.ps # views it
> ptroff -man foobar.1 | lpr # prints it

this wont work, you need to say "ptroff -man -t ..."

Scott also points out that the following line works (and is simpler than my suggestion)
> You can also say "ptroff -man -t foobar.1 | open" directly!
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