nroff and printing

[Dennis Malen]

When passing an nroff file (where the underlying file was created in 
filepro) off to the printer must I have the printer set to any particular 
configuration? When passed through to a PCL or ASCII printer, the carriage 
return does not work. The end of the line is continued at the next column 
but on the next line down.

I am using the following:

nroff {name of file created by filepro} | lp -d{name of printer} -s

With or without the -s provides the same results.

When the following command is used, it writes it to the screen correctly and 
the form is perfect:

nroff {name of file created by filepro}|pg

The file is created in filepro processing with the following:

PRINTER FILE "/tmp/name of file"
  -   -   -   -   -   -   -

FORM "name of file"
  -   -   -   -   -   -   -

PRINTER RESET
  -   -   -   -   -   -   -

chain "input"

This works fine and is not the problem.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

It appears to be a printer specific problem. I may be wrong.

Dennis Malen
516.479.5912