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From: beattie@visenix.UUCP (Brian Beattie)
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Subject: Re: Ditroff
Keywords: ditroff
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Date: 1 Sep 90 14:44:43 GMT
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In article <6486@tekgen.BV.TEK.COM> mike@raven.uss.tek.com (Mike Ewan) writes:
>
>Actually you might try groff (GNU roff), which is a direct replacement
>for ditroff, pic, tbl, eqn, and transcript, and is FREE.  I don't know
>about portability to SysV, but it's worth a try.  It's available via
>ftp from gatekeeper.dec.com (16.1.0.2).  We've installed and tested
>it and are quite pleased.
>
>Mike
>
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>"Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches/sec."--J. Hart

Works fine under SysV/386 be warned it is written in c++ so you will need
g++ which needs gcc.

I have it running under ESIX and Interactive.
















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