Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 15:19:24 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: "Peter J. Farley III" <pjfarley AT banet DOT net>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Do we have a "ditroff" equivalent in DJGPP?
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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.