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nroff -man blank page prefix output - what am I doing wrong?

porter
From NZ
Who joined Nov. 1, 2006, 10:37 p.m.

Wrote the following at Jan. 3, 2012, midnight..

Hi,

I am writing a man page, the neko_groff is emitting blank pages at the start of the output, even for postscript as output.

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$ which groff


/usr/nekoware/bin/groff


$ groff -version


GNU groff version 1.19.1


Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.


GNU groff comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.


You may redistribute copies of groff and its subprograms


under the terms of the GNU General Public License.


For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING.




called subprograms:




GNU eqn (groff) version 1.19.1


GNU grops (groff) version 1.19.1


GNU troff (groff) version 1.19.1

My man page is really simple

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$ cat testpage


.TH TESTPAGE 1 "3 January 2012"


.SH NAME


testpage(1) \- A test page

On Linux, I get

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$ groff -version


GNU groff version 1.18.1.1


Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.


GNU groff comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.


You may redistribute copies of groff and its subprograms


under the terms of the GNU General Public License.


For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING.




called subprograms:




GNU eqn (groff) version 1.18.1.1


GNU troff (groff) version 1.18.1.1


GNU grops (groff) version 1.18.1.1

and my output looks sensible:

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$ nroff -man <testpage


TESTPAGE(1)                                                        TESTPAGE(1)








NAME


testpage(1) - A test page








3 January 2012                     TESTPAGE(1)

however on IRIX, I get 40 blank lines ( bare LF ) prepended to the output. I've tried with both nekoware on and off the path. I don't have the original SGI versions of the programs.

Any suggestions? ( apart from strip them off afterwards )

Thanks,

porter

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tingo
From Oslo, Norway
Who joined June 26, 2010, 5:40 p.m.

Wrote the following at Jan. 6, 2012, 9:29 a.m...

Have you checked the an macros on the Irix machine for problems?

Torfinn

porter
From NZ
Who joined Nov. 1, 2006, 10:37 p.m.

Wrote the following at Jan. 6, 2012, 10:14 a.m...

I have a default install of neko_groff. I have very limited *roff knowledge except what I need to write man pages using existing macros.

I was rather hoping somebody could just confirm my findings, and ideally compare the output with native SGI provided nroff.

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PymbleSoftware
From P.O. Box 529, Gordon, Sydney, NSW 2072, Australia.
Who joined July 15, 2008, 5:48 p.m.

Wrote the following at Jan. 7, 2012, 12:32 a.m...

porter wrote: I have a default install of neko_groff. I have very limited *roff knowledge except what I need to write man pages using existing macros.

I was rather hoping somebody could just confirm my findings, and ideally compare the output with native SGI provided nroff.

Some people hate awf but anyways...

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tezro:~/code2/roger-test> cat > testpage


.TH TESTPAGE 1 "3 January 2012"


.SH NAME


testpage(1) \- A test page


tezro:~/code2/roger-test> awf testpage


/usr/bin/awf: must specify -ms or -man


tezro:~/code2/roger-test> awf -man testpage






TESTPAGE(1)         Unix Programmer's Manual          TESTPAGE(1)






NAME


testpage(1) - A test page




























































































3 January 2012                         1






tezro:~/code2/roger-test>


tezro:~/code2/roger-test> man awf




awf(1)                                                                  awf(1)




NAME


awf - amazingly workable (text) formatter




SYNOPSIS


awf -macros [ file ] ...




DESCRIPTION


Awf formats the text from the input file(s) (standard input if none) in


an imitation of The -macro option is mandatory and must be `-man' or


`-ms'.

I don't have nroff installed on this machine, no time to fire up the main beasts, and I don't know where SGI nroff comes from ... and I haven't the time to go through 6.5.30 overlays or the foundation disks. No time at all lately.

R.

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porter
From NZ
Who joined Nov. 1, 2006, 10:37 p.m.

Wrote the following at Jan. 7, 2012, 1:12 a.m...

That is really cool, it looks like awf may do it.

Now, how do you make it not print "UNIX Programmer's Manual" ( as in I want to format the relnotes ).

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josehill
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From New England, USA
Who joined June 6, 2005, 9:53 p.m.

Wrote the following at Jan. 7, 2012, 2:38 a.m...

PymbleSoftware wrote: I don't have nroff installed on this machine, no time to fire up the main beasts, and I don't know where SGI nroff comes from

SGI nroff is found in the Documenter's Workbench (DWB) product. Although IRIX overlays contain updates for it, the base DWB product was not actually included with IRIX, but was licensed as a separate product. See this thread for (slightly) more info: viewtopic.php?f=15&t=12765

PymbleSoftware
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Who joined July 15, 2008, 5:48 p.m.

Wrote the following at Jan. 7, 2012, 12:10 p.m...

josehill wrote:

PymbleSoftware wrote: I don't have nroff installed on this machine, no time to fire up the main beasts, and I don't know where SGI nroff comes from

SGI nroff is found in the Documenter's Workbench (DWB) product. Although IRIX overlays contain updates for it, the base DWB product was not actually included with IRIX, but was licensed as a separate product. See this thread for (slightly) more info: viewtopic.php?f=15&t=12765

Thanks.

I have created a couple of wiki entries to point back to tech pubs, and these two forum topics.
Hopefully someone else can come forward with more detail for those wiki entries later.

R.

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