how to FORCE a page break in troff?

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From: Joe Smith
Date: Sat, 05 Aug 1989 17:46

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Does anyone know how to *absolutely force* a page break in troff?  I
hope there's a trivial solution I've missed, but troff and the macro
package work very hard to keep from generating 'extra' space
(including extra pages via .bp) at the top of a page.  Even a '.rs'
just before the '.bp' doesn't work.  I'm using (o)troff -me, but I
could probably hack in any general solutions.

I need this for leaving an empty page (or pages), except for headers
and footers, for paste-ins.

I suppose in the end, I could simply bump the page# register and
format the missing pages separately in raw troff (ugh!).  Any better
ideas?

<Joe

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 Joe Smith
 University of Pennsylvania                    jes@mbio.med.upenn.edu
 Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics          (215) 898-8348
 Philadelphia, PA 19104-6059

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