1roff2dvi(1) General Commands Manual roff2dvi(1)
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6 roff2dvi - transform roff code into dvi mode
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9 roff2dvi [ groffer_option ....] [--] [ filespec ....]
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11 roff2dvi -h|--help
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13 roff2dvi -v|--version
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15 The options -v and --version print the version information of the pro‐
16 gram to standard output and exit. The options -h and --help print a
17 usage information of the program to standard output and stop the pro‐
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20 All other options are assumed to be groffer options. They are inter‐
21 nally passed to groffer. They override the behavior of the program.
22 The options are optional, they can be omitted.
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24 The filespec arguments correspond to the filespec arguments of groffer.
25 So they are either the names of existing, readable files or - for stan‐
26 dard input, or the name of a man page or a groffer(1) man page search
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31 roff2dvi transforms roff code into dvi mode. Print the result to stan‐
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34 There are more of these programs for generating other formats of roff
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54 groff(1), groffer(1), roff2html(1), roff2pdf(1), roff2ps(1),
55 roff2text(1), roff2x(1), gxditview(1).
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58 Copyright © 2006-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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60 This file is part of groffer, which is part of GNU groff, a free soft‐
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63 You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU
64 General Public License version 2 (GPL2) as published by the Free Soft‐
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71 This file was written by Bernd Warken ⟨groff-bernd.warken-72@web.de⟩.
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75Groff Version 1.22.3 25 July 2019 roff2dvi(1)