Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/09/23/12:15:37
On Wed, 23 Sep 1998, Peter J. Farley III wrote:
> The "-ms" argument translates to groff OK, it says to use the macros
> in /share/groff/tmac/tmac.s, but the "-Pip2" argument seems to
> generate a message from grotty: "can't open `ip2'". If I add the
> parameter "-Tps" to print to Postscript, grops gives the same message
> about `ip2'.
Did you try without the -Pip2 switch? Groff's -P switch does something
entirely different than whoever wrote that ditroff command meant. (I
don't know what does ditroff -Pfoo does, but if you look at Groff docs,
you will realize that Groff's -P is *very* different.)
> TIA for any advice or info on this. BTW, just what does "ditroff"
> stand for, anyway? "display troff", maybe? Or "device independant
> troff"? Or what?
ditroff is device-independent troff. My guess will be that Groff is
quite a good replacement for it, so I'd advise to see if that command
works without -Pip2.
Otherwise, you will have to find a system with ditroff installed and read
the docs there to find out what does -Pip2 mean.
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