ITEM: BD8713L

CAN'T print 3rd party man pages

Question:

CAN'T NROFF DOCUMENT

Response:

ENV:    3.2.5, 370

DESC:   1)  Wants to convert man pages files for RCS into ascii files.  They
            are in nroff format.  
        2)  Has a file that came with RCS software
            They suggest a command to format the file.  
            pic filename | tbl |        troff -ms
            He then wants to print this file.

ACTION: 
It appears that problem may be with tables - haven't talked to
customer yet.  Easy way to print man pages is with:

psroff -man  manpage

But for doing tables will probably have to also use tbl.

Example table file:

Print this file with:

  tbl filename | psroff
        or
  tbl filename | troff -Thplj | hplj | qprt -Ppclque

Source for file - entrys are separated by tabls.
.TS
center box ;
cB | s | s
cI | cI | s
c | c |  c
l | n | n .
Household Population
_Town    Households
        Number  Size
=Bedminster      789     3.26
Bernards Twp.   3087    3.74
Bernardsville   2018    3.30
Bound Brook     3425    3.04
Bridgewater     7897    3.81
Far Hills       240     3.19
.TE

Response:
It looks like what he is missing is simply the -T option
to specify the output device.  Since he has a PCL printer, this
is hplj which gets piped to hplj
Has a 3930 printer - PCL

pic filename | tbl | troff -ms -Thplj | hplj | lpr

Gave the user good input on his documents.

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Support Line: CAN'T print 3rd party man pages  ITEM: BD8713L

Dated: January 1996 Category: N/A

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