[Info-vax] runoff .RNH fun and games.

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In article <ovqdnTFCbuAKFinPnZ2dnUVZ_radnZ2d at mchsi.com>, "John E. Malmberg" <wb8tyw at qsl.network> writes:
>I am trying to use runoff to generate a .hlp file from a .RNH file.
>
>I already found the issue that the source filename needs to be in upper 
>case.
>
>The issue that I am finding is that each line of output from runoff has 
><CR><LF> at the end followed by a blank line with <CR><LF> on it.
>
>I can reproduce this from VAX/VMS 7.3 to IA64/VMS 8.4.
>
>I do not remember having this issue with runoff in the past, so would 
>like to know if there is some way to get Runoff to produce the proper 
>format?

John, 

I've hated this for years... I put this in my DESCRIP.MMS definitions to
fix up the .HLP file.

$(RNH)$(HLP) :
        @ DEFAULT := 'F$environment("DEFAULT")
        @ SET DEFAULT 'F$parse("$(MMS$SOURCE)",,,"DEVICE")''F$parse("$(MMS$SOURCE)",,,"DIRECTORY")'
        $(RUNOFF)$(RFLAGS) $(MMS$SOURCE)
        @ DEFINE TEC$INIT "EB$(MMS$TARGET)<ESC>K<ESC>EGPURGEE $(MMS$TARGET)<ESC><ESC>"
        @ EDITT/TECO/COMMAND 
        @ SET DEFAULT 'DEFAULT

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