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Article #4575Re: ditroff on Pyramid
From: Svante Lindahl
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 1988 18:51
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 1988 18:51
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In response to <318@draken.nada.kth.se> by larsa@nada.kth.se (Lars Andersson) csg@pyramid.pyramid.com (Carl S. Gutekunst) wrote in <17471@pyramid.pyramid.com>: [ About troff in the att universe on a Pyramid running OSx 4.0 :] >If it simply dumps core or something equally awful, then you have a corrupted >executable file. Harass your salesman or your FE to get you a copy that works. >For general problems/questions, send mail to pyramid!bugs. Turned out that the /usr/.attbin/troff that was installed from a PTF was bad, it terminated with a bus error when run. Reverting back to the 4.0 distribution fixed that. Carl also wrote: >Since we use this software to generate all our documentation (with Adobe's >Transcript(TM) or AT&T's Imagen Impress(TM) filter as the backend), >ment "it does not run" needs some elaboration! What OSx release? Which macro >package, if any? What does your input do? What are you using as a backend? Is >it a consistent failure, or only under certain conditions? Lars wants to use Transcript from Adobe as backend, so he tells me (the sysadmin) to install the required font descriptions in /usr/lib/font/devpsc and that there is a makefile distributed with Transcript that will do it for me. Well not quite, it requires a makedev program that I have no idea where to get. Can anyone help me with this? This may no longer be appropriate for comp.sys.pyramid and I don't read comp.text, so please reply by mail. Svante Lindahl New: zap@nada.kth.se Old: uunet!nada.kth.se!zap Bitnet: zap@sestak
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!enea!ttds!draken!zap From: zap@nada.kth.se (Svante Lindahl) Newsgroups: comp.text,comp.sys.pyramid Subject: Re: ditroff on Pyramid Message-ID: <324@draken.nada.kth.se> Date: 31 Mar 88 18:51:56 GMT References: <318@draken.nada.kth.se> <17471@pyramid.pyramid.com> Organization: The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm Lines: 32 Summary: ditroff solved - where is makedev?