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In article <8605240555.AA04000@lll-tis-b.ARPA> styx!mcb@lll-tis-b.ARPA (Michael C. Berch) writes:
>We are trying to bring up ditroff on a Pyramid 98xe to work with the
>Adobe TranScript (PostScript support) package and some Apple
>LaserWriters. 
>
>We have a DWB license, but instead of using the System V DWB
>distribution we are trying to use the ditroff sources from Berkeley 
>that have been ported to 4.2BSD; we want to be able to run the 4.2
>lpr(1) spooler with network services.
>
>Unfortunately, these sources produce a ditroff that is dead on
>arrival, and refuses to mount the correct fonts. (We know the fonts
>are there since the rest of the TranScript package prints, as does old
>troff). We have also heard that various other people have failed to
>get ditroff running on 90x and 98xe's.
>
>Has anybody successfully brought up ditroff on a Pyramid? We'd be
>grateful for your advice, hints, code diffs, or (especially) a ported
>version of the source (upon verification of our license, of course).
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Michael C. Berch
>Control Data Corp. / Lawrence Livermore Natl. Laboratory
>ARPA: mcb@lll-tis-b.ARPA
>UUCP: {ihnp4,dual,sun}!lll-lcc!styx!mcb

Yes, we have ditroff running on 2 of our Pyramids and it works great. The only
big change you need to do is in troff/n1.c - there are two routine there that
use variable length arguments but do not use the varargs macros. The routines
are fprintf and sprintf (from original ATT code - scaled down library routines
of the same name).

The old C compiler (pre-CLE) will probably compile this code so it will work
but the new CLE C compiler will not. It compiles without a warning but produces
erroneous output. 

If anyone wants my diffs, I could post them. Otherwise, it is an easy exercise
to implement the routines using varargs. See the manual page on varargs and
look at varargs.h

Good luck.

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Rick Ord
UCSD Academic Computing Center
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