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.TH TEXFIX 1
.\" NAME should be all caps, SECTION should be 1-8, maybe w/ subsection
.\" other parms are allowed: see man(7), man(1)
.SH NAME
texfix \- fix (or escape) a bug of ROM in some printer.
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B texfix
.br
.SH DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the
.BR texfix
command.
This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution
because the original command hadn't manual page.
.br
With some printer, dvi2ps could fail to run with an error message like:
.PP
papif: Starting job for kazama@square at Thu Mar 26 15:04:04 1992 on printer NTX-J[M5-112B]:LaserWriter@*
.br
Fatal system error @ 0X400f2fc0
.br
papif: Finished job at Thu Mar 26 15:04:41 1992
.PP
This is because there is a bug of old ROM in some printer.
To fix (or escape) this bug, texfix might be useful.
.PP
.SH EXAMPLES
.PP
dvi2ps foo.dvi | texfix | lpr
.SH "SEE ALSO"
dvi2ps(1)
.SH AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@debian.org>,
for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).