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From: scott@dtscp1.UUCP (Scott Barman)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: What features would you like in GNU troff?
Message-ID: <874@dtscp1.UUCP>
Date: 7 Aug 89 15:26:52 GMT
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In article <5061@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> cck@deneb.ucdavis.edu (Earl H. Kinmonth) writes:
>In article <9746@alice.UUCP> debra@alice.UUCP () writes:
>>Long ago there was "troff", which produced output for just one type of
>>phototypesetter. (In fact this is still the troff that comes with BSD.)
>
>Long ago is relative.  Unfortunately, the troff the comes with SCO
>Xenix is "classic troff" that works only with CAT devices.  The
>problem is finding a CAT machine outside of the Smithsonian!  As an

I know where you can find three of them and I think they might even
pay you to take them away!! :-) :-)

>historian, I suppose I should be happy that for only $150 or so SCO
>sells me a genuine heirloom, something that will appreciate in value
>if collecting old software ever acquires the status of art deco lamps
>or bubble gum cards, but in the meantime, I am pissed off.

In all seriousness, that is the problem with SCO and, IMHO, a problem
I have with all these vendors selling a version of Unix (this is a topic
for another news group and I won't expand here... if SCO wants to flame
me, do it email!).  As of System V Release 2, if you bought the
document production software from AT&T, you'd get DWB 2.0.  Now, I think
you will get SoftQuad's work.  But still, it is not the C/A/T troff.
When a company I was working for finally got a source license, they gave
us the source to the old C/A/T troff and had to pay extra for DWB.
Someone told me they (AT&T) does not distribute the C/A/T troff.  I think
you should this up to SCO and remind them C/A/T troff is not SVR3 
compatible (they advertise they are SVR3 compatible).

Side note: the C/A/T was a cute device (programming wise) but I was
glad when we (at a previous job) retired those things for an APS Micro-5!

-- 
scott barman
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