Hi Walter,
Anton Shepelev wrote:
> Walter Harms:
> > thx for the hint, but how does setting the page lenght affect the
> > printed output ? the main point is to print the document, showing
> > it is only sec- ond.
>
> It depends on what you call printed output. If you mean the output
> of one of groff's character-cell devices (-Tascii, -Tlatin1,...) then
> yes.
If you only want to set a very long page length, or an end of input
trap, for `nroff' output and not troff then use a
.if n ...do nroff-only things...
There's a matching `t' as well that's only true if we're troff. That
way your PostScript output can be paged, and your terminal output not.
Cheers,
Ralph.