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From: abe@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Vic Abell)
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Subject: Re: Troff (finally) working on DECstations
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Date: 18 Jul 89 18:37:33 GMT
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In article <18615@mimsy.UUCP> steve@umiacs.umd.edu (Steve D. Miller) writes:
>   Also, once the 4.3BSD troff is working, you need font width tables in a
>format you can use.

There are at least two other fixes: 1) convert the troff code to read COFF
format files directly (I did this once and it's not too hard); or 2) use the
troff in DWB 2.0 where the font tables are no longer required in C compiler
output format, but are simple text files.