Hi Thank you all for answering. I had not the just idea, what is PostScript. Now it is much more clearer.
Regards Gregoire Le mardi 31 mars 2020 à 22:23 -0400, Mike Bianchi a écrit : > > I should find at some place a file named aa.ps. But there is > > nothing. > > If you type this command to the shell > > groff aa > > it will produce PostScript (ps) output on the "standard output" > (stdout) > which defaults to the terminal in which the groff aa command is > run. > > When I type that line into my shell I see: > > %!PS-Adobe-3.0 > %%Creator: groff version 1.22.2 > %%CreationDate: Tue Mar 31 22:06:30 2020 > %%DocumentNeededResources: font Times-Roman > %%DocumentSuppliedResources: procset grops 1.22 2 > %%Pages: 1 > %%PageOrder: Ascend > %%DocumentMedia: Default 612 792 0 () () > %%Orientation: Portrait > %%EndComments > %%BeginDefaults > %%PageMedia: Default > %%EndDefaults > %%BeginProlog > %%BeginResource: procset grops 1.22 2 > : > : > %%EndSetup > %%Page: 1 1 > %%BeginPageSetup > BP > %%EndPageSetup > /F0 10/Times-Roman@0 SF(aa)72 12 Q 0 Cg EP > %%Trailer > end > %%EOF > > That is the PostScript that is the formated version of what is in > file aa . > To put the PostScript into a file named aa.ps : > > groff aa >aa.ps > > The > redirects the standard output into the file aa.ps . > Hope this helps. > Mike > > On Wed, Apr 01, 2020 at 03:55:24AM +0200, Grégoire Babey wrote: > > Hi groffies! > > > > I reading the manual again. > > There is something I don't understand. > > I read in the manual, at chap. 2.6: > > > > "groff file > > > > This command processes file without a macro package or a > > preprocessor. > > The output device is the default, ‘ps’, and the output is sent to > > stdout." > > > > I tried this with a simple file named aa, containing only two > > characters. "aa". If I type: > > > > groff aa > > > > I should find at some place a file named aa.ps. But there is > > nothing. > > I was searching with locate: > > > > locate aa.ps > > > > gives no results. > > > > I have found some directories named stdout, but there was no aa.ps > > there. > > > > Can somebody explain this to me? > > > > Regards > > Gregoire > > > >
