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From: dab@asylum.SF.CA.US (Dave Bridgham)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: PCIP Manual format
Message-ID: <7971@asylum.SF.CA.US>
Date: 25 Oct 89 15:53:20 GMT
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Reply-To: dab@asylum.UUCP (Dave Bridgham)
Organization: The Asylum; Belmont, CA
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The formatter used for the PCIP manual and which uses .mss files
predates texinfo by just a few years.  It's called scribe and was
available for TOPS-20 and Unix systems (maybe others but's that where
I saw it).

There was a word formatter for the IBMPC (finalword) which was very
close to scribe.  It is now out of production.

If you are happy dealing with texinfo, I'd suggest a quick pass with
an editor to change the scribe commands the their nearest texinfo
commands and running with that.

						David Bridgham