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Troff, ghostscript, psroff: Request for Help!

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From: mat
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 09:39
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Hi,
	I hope this isn't old ground; it's just one exit past the FAQ.  I
don't receive the group, (I do receive news.answers and the FAQ) so if
you don't mind helping, please send mail.  The addresses in the signature
are good.  (If you want to flame me, please-don't-but-if-you-must-you'll-
have-to-use-mail.)

	I'm trying to get troff to feed ghostscript.  It's a sysVr4/386
troff (ESIX 4.03) and doesn't come with  makedev (as far as I and find(1)
can see).  I snarfed psroff3.0 off uunet, with patches 1-10.  There seem
to be some missing files in psroff.  Several `DESC' files are missing and
I can't seem to force it to produce anything that looks like the font
descriptions under /usr/ucblib/doctools/font/*  (where * is either  devaps
or  devpost ).

	Does anyone know what I should do next?  Postscript being what it
is, it ought to be possible to make the fonts generate the tables, but I
don't know enough about either Postscript or the tables to pull it off.
Or is there another way?
-- 
 (This man's opinions are his own.)
 From mole-end				Mark Terribile

 mat@mole-end.matawan.nj.us, Somewhere in Matawan, NJ
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