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From: msc@ramoth.esd.sgi.com (Mark Callow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Availability of ditroff
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Date: 13 Jun 90 17:58:50 GMT
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In article <9006102335.AA00346@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz>,
russell@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz writes:
|> Where can I get ditroff ( device independent troff)? We have just got the
|> Documenters Workbench and I have discovered that I now need
Transcript to get
|> output onto our Laser Writer. I have the source for a ditroff -> PS
converter
|> and thought that might be cheaper and quicker than getting Transcript.
|> (It took nearly 3 months to get DWB! and now I find I still can't use it!)

If you bought dwb from Silicon Graphics you already have ditroff.

The price of Transcript is governed largely by Adobe's licensing fees.
--
From the TARDIS of Mark Callow
msc@ramoth.sgi.com, ...{ames,decwrl}!sgi!msc
"There is much virtue in a window.  It is to a human being as a frame is to
a painting, as a proscenium to a play.  It strongly defines its content."