From owner-freebsd-doc Sun Aug 30 11:37:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA19217 for freebsd-doc-outgoing; Sun, 30 Aug 1998 11:37:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dt053nb4.san.rr.com (dt053nb4.san.rr.com [204.210.34.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA19168 for ; Sun, 30 Aug 1998 11:37:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Studded@dal.net) Received: from dal.net (Studded@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dt053nb4.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA03829 for ; Sun, 30 Aug 1998 11:36:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Studded@dal.net) Message-ID: <35E99BA2.4D027DA@dal.net> Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1998 11:36:18 -0700 From: Studded Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.06 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE-0827 i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help with an .ms file please References: <35E73AC5.B51620A3@dal.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Studded wrote: > > I am trying to format a file that comes with the XFree86 package that > describes the control sequences available with xterm > (/usr/ports/x11/XFree86/work/xc/doc/specs/xterm/ctlseqs.ms). The file > has the following instructions: > > Run this file through troff and use the -ms macro package. > > I've tried various combinations of troff/groff including the most > obvious, 'groff -ms ctlseqs.ms > xterm-sequences' but I'm not getting > any output that I can read. :-/ Any suggestions would be welcome here. I solved this one, turns out that it was nroff I wanted instead. Thanks for all the suggestions, Doug -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** When you don't know where you're going, every road will take you there. - Yiddish Proverb To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message