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Re: pic problems in eroff

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From: John Kennedy
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1989 09:17
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In article <460@telesoft.telesoft.com> colleen@telesoft.telesoft.com (Colleen Wirth @second) writes:
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>I'm using Elan's troff, eroff, on a Sun3/60 to print documentation. 
>Unfortunately I'm having trouble printing full-page "pic" diagrams on an 
>HP-2000.
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Tried to email this, but it bounced.

Just a guess, but what's the size of the lp spool file on the pic|eroff output?

I guess Suns don't have the ulimit problem that we Sys5'ers have, but could
it be some spooling-related problem?  Would it be worth a try  to

             pic | eroff -X > /dev

John
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John Kennedy                     johnk@opel.UUCP
Second Source, Inc.
Annapolis, MD
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Subject: Re: pic problems in eroff
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