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From: abe@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Vic Abell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Troff (finally) working on DECstations
Message-ID: <2756@mace.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: 20 Jul 89 14:12:19 GMT
References: <18615@mimsy.UUCP> <2742@mace.cc.purdue.edu> <578@elan.elan.com>
Reply-To: abe@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Vic Abell)
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In article <578@elan.elan.com> jlo@elan.elan.com (Jeff Lo) writes:
>>In article <2742@mace.cc.purdue.edu> abe@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Vic Abell) writes:
>Well, DWB 2.0 still uses binary format width tables, but they are not
>in a.out format.  DWB comes with a table compiler called makedev


Jeff is correct.  it is the dwb 2.0 nroff that no longer needs to have
its terminal driver tables in a.out format.  They are now ASCII files
and no longer need to be compiled to be acceptable to nroff.  It was my
mistake in confusing the question about font tables of troff with the
terminal driver tables of nroff in the original query.