troff blues
Joe Campbell
that we have trying to print the manuals. The problem appears to be
a limitation in troff (on our Suns) and your long path names. Here's
an excerpt from an unanswered posting on the Khoros news group that
addresses our problem:
...troff only allow a maximum path length of 62 characters after a .so command.
Thus, when the text formatter attempts to execute a source file with a path
length longer than this, it cuts off the last characters of the path and
complains that it cannot find the file (because there is no full file name
after it has been trimmed). This happens when we have paths like
/usr/from/khoros/doc/xprism/xprism2/plot/input_function/manual/Overview.
Do you have any suggestions?
Joe
George Lindholm
> It appears that a number of Khoros users are having the same problems
> that we have trying to print the manuals. The problem appears to be
> a limitation in troff (on our Suns) and your long path names. Here's
> an excerpt from an unanswered posting on the Khoros news group that
> addresses our problem:
>
> ...troff only allow a maximum path length of 62 characters after a .so command.
Try groff. I had no problem with the 1.0(?) khoros release (except a large
number of warning message due to improper command use).
George
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Joe Campbell
>In article <36...@pprg.eece.unm.edu.pprg.unm.edu>, jpc...@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Joe Campbell) writes:
>> It appears that a number of Khoros users are having the same problems
>> that we have trying to print the manuals. The problem appears to be
>> a limitation in troff (on our Suns) and your long path names. Here's
>> an excerpt from an unanswered posting on the Khoros news group that
>> addresses our problem:
>>
>> ...troff only allow a maximum path length of 62 characters after a .so command.
>> Do you have any suggestions?
>
>Try groff. I had no problem with the 1.0(?) khoros release (except a large
>number of warning message due to improper command use).
>
George:
I wish groff was an option, but my facility can't use PD stuff. Do you
know of any way to make stock Sun software do the trick?
Joe
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Fritz Zaucker
>> ...troff only allow a maximum path length of 62 characters after a .so command.
>> Do you have any suggestions?
>
>Try groff. I had no problem with the 1.0(?) khoros release (except a large
>number of warning message due to improper command use).
>
> [.sig removed]
George:
I wish groff was an option, but my facility can't use PD stuff. Do you
know of any way to make stock Sun software do the trick?
Joe
Hmmm, I know Khoros has a Copyright notice in it. Does this make it
"usable" for you? And groff (which I guess is from the FSF) having a
Copyleft notice not???
Fritz
Len Makin, Supercomputing Support Group, CSIRO DIT Melbourne.
>Try groff. I had no problem with the 1.0(?) khoros release (except a large
>number of warning message due to improper command use).
I also used groff, but had to use -C option, and still got incredibly tiny
font point size ( ~3 pt??) on the Tables of Contents for Volume III Ch 1,2.
Yes, I got heaps of warning messages too, but the text seems to be OK
apart from the TOC.
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Joe Campbell
Fritz:
Interesting, isn't it. Because Khoros can be purchased ($250), it's
possible to use it. I don't make the rules. Can groff be purchased?
Joe
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George Lindholm
> In article <FRITZZ.92F...@oracles.ldgo.columbia.edu> fri...@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu (Fritz Zaucker) writes:
> >Hmmm, I know Khoros has a Copyright notice in it. Does this make it
> >"usable" for you? And groff (which I guess is from the FSF) having a
> >Copyleft notice not???
> >
> >Fritz
>
> Fritz:
> Interesting, isn't it. Because Khoros can be purchased ($250), it's
> possible to use it. I don't make the rules. Can groff be purchased?
> Joe
source on them (including groff) for about $600 US. This is a similar
arrangement to what khoros offers.
You can get more information from:
Free Software Foundation
675 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
617-876-3296
Hope this helps.