Problems with troff output on a laser printer

[Ananth Rao]

Has anyone got 'troff' to work with a laser printer, specifically the
HP Laserjet III?  

I know that troff writes to /dev/cat, so I created this device special 
file with the same major and minor numbers as those of my parallel port
device /dev/lp0 (using mknod). I then configured the printer to deal 
with the new device name (using mkdev lp).  When I print out stuff, 
the printer spews out troff binary rather than text.

Is there something I'm doing wrong?

I have SCO Xenix 2.2.3, running on a 386  25 MHz m/c.


Thanks is advance.

Ananth Rao                                    {uunet,yale}!hsi!rao
3M Health Information Systems                          rao at hsi.com
Wallingford, Connecticut
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Ananth Rao                                    {uunet,yale}!hsi!rao
3M Health Information Systems                          rao at hsi.com
Wallingford, Connecticut