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nroff error.

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From: Flame Bait
Date: Sun, 06 Aug 1989 23:13
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I'm am trying to print out a large document using this command:
tbl rules.me | nroff -me 

I get this error message:
Bad storage allocation.

Half of the document gets printed.  This is happening on a Sun workstation
using SunOS 3.2.  The same thing happens when I try to send the document
to a laser writer using "tbl rules.me | ptroff -me -Plw".  Does anybody
know what the problem is and how to fix or work around it?  Thanks for any
help.

Sometimes I think the problem is in tbl, since that is the only program which
is called for both printing to the screen and printing to a laser writer;
other times I think it is nroff, since "tbl rules.me" works and "nroff
-me rules.me" fails.

Joshua Levy
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Subject: nroff error.
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Date: 6 Aug 89 23:13:31 GMT
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