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From: jeenglis@nunki.usc.edu (Joe English)
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Subject: Re: Is nroff part of UNIX package?
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funk@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>On our SYS V Rel 2  UNIX, we had nroff/troff
>Now, on Release 3, we do not have it.  OUr vendor says that it really
>wasn't part of UNIX, that it was part of Documentor's Workbench, and that we'd 
>gotten a freebie before that they don't have to give now.
>Is this for Real???

I guess so.  A good deal for AT&T; the Documenters
Workbench costs bucks.  Plus, no nroff --> no online
man pages (also not included in SYSV) --> more people
who can't easily RTFM and thus have to post to the
net --> longer phone calls for uucp traffic --> AT&T
wins again...

Hmmm...  Come to think of it, you pay for the call
to get the Documenter's Workbench, too, if you order
it through their electronic software distribution
system.

--Joe English

  jeenglis@nunki.usc.edu.  PS:  :-)