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From: psrc@pegasus.ATT.COM (Paul S. R. Chisholm)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: nroff program for pc
Summary: Elan?
Keywords: nroff, software, help
Message-ID: <4181@pegasus.ATT.COM>
Date: 16 Oct 89 16:22:05 GMT
References: <12496@boulder.Colorado.EDU>
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <12496@boulder.Colorado.EDU>, rob@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Robert N. Bernard) writes:
> Is there a program available for a pc that prints nroff files
> (including the s macros) to a Canon laser printer or a cheap Epson?

A company called Elan Computer Group sold a product called NROFF/PC,
and another called Eroff (a troff port or reimplementation to MS-DOS).
Mortice Kern Systems (makers of the MKS Toolkit) sold a package called
MKS/SQPS, an MS-DOS port of the Documentor's Workbench 2.0.  It's not
clear if any of these included the -ms macros.

This is from the Winter (first quarter) 1989 Programmer's Connection
catalog.  The Fall catalog doesn't list any of these products (or Elan
at all).  I have no contact information for Elan.  MKS can be reached
at inquiry@mks.com (I think).

> Robert N. Bernard, bernard@clipr.colorado.edu, rob@homeboy.colorado.edu