From: pjfarley AT banet DOT net (Peter J. Farley III)
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Subject: Re: Do we have a "ditroff" equivalent in DJGPP?
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 02:28:38 GMT
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rjvdboon AT cs DOT vu DOT nl (Boon van der RJ) wrote:
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>-Pip2 means to groff: post-process with ip2, which (if it
>exists) is perfectly valid, but if it doesn't....
>-Pxyz on unix also tends to mean: print to printer/device xyz, 
>If you pipe the output to a file (without -Pip2), does that file look
>usefull?

Omitting the "-Pip2" did the trick.  Both grotty and grops produced
useful output, and piping the ps output to a file gave a good
Postscript file that GhostView was able to both display and print.

Thanks very much!

>> 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?
>
>The latter (IIRC)

Thanks again.

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