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

[George Cornelius]

John E. Malmberg wrote:
> 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.

That is not what it is doing - at least if you selected
single-spaced lines.

It is generating variable length records with carriage
control of "NONE".  It is then free to insert its own
embedded carriage control.

I am not sure how this differs from the so-called "PRINT"
carriage control setting.

As Brian has mentioned, the standard TECO solution still
works to convert to normal text format:

 $ EDIT/TECO/NOMEM MYFILE.DOC
 *EX$$

where you have to know to type EX<ESC><ESC> at the prompt
to have it then flush everything to the output file and
exit.

The /NOMEM is just my preference so TECO doesn't try to
automatically remember what file was edited last.

George

> 
> 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?
> 
> Regards,
> -John
> wb8tyw at qsl.network
> Personal Opinion Only