Aesquire.313 net.unix-wizards utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ihnss!wheps!zeppo!harpo!esquire!psl Tue Mar 30 02:37:14 1982 Re: ms diagnostic The only time we've gotten the "out of temp space" diagnostic from nroff (oops; change that to "only times") were cases of diversions not being terminated; e.g. a footnote start (which diverts) with no footnote end. This, of course, throws the rest of the document into the diversion and apparently overflows a counter or line pointer storage area or some such. In every case we've been able to find a "logical" error in the input and the diagnostic went away. On the other hand nroff has some truly bizarre bugs available for the adventurous... We no longer use nroff. Instead we're using two different nroff-like formatters. One is called "ff" and is FAST (by comparison) but limited (its bugs are also limited but no less bizarre); the other is a rewrite of nroff which has MANY fewer limitations, does most of what troff does for an extensible set of output devices, and so on; all with no loss of bizarre-ness ... (I seem to have wandered from the subject; sorry) Peter Langston esquire!psl ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.