Troff and Transcript

[Bill Wang]

I have a problem with getting transcript and troff (not ditroff) running on
a DEC station 3100.  The troff I used was from dec and was not a supported
product, the transcript was from adobe.  When I tried the ptroff command
which uses troff and the translation from C\A\T to postscript, I got the
following message: 

Non-numeric character in font file /usr/local/lib/ps/troff.font/Times/ftR
(maybe non-ASCII font file)

Can someone who had the similar experience give me some hints of what's
going on here?  I think these font tables like ftR were generated by the
compiling result and therefore were not ASCII file.  BTW, I don't know
much about the internal structure of Troff and any help would be appreciated.

Bill Wang
US Mail = Psychology Department, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405
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Bill Wang
US Mail = Psychology Department, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405
UUCP  = {rutgers, att, ames}!iuvax!wcwang
Internet = wcwang at iuvax.cs.indiana.edu