Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!smoke.cs.toronto.edu!neat.cs.toronto.edu!moraes From: moraes@cs.toronto.edu (Mark Moraes) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi Subject: Re: PD nroff (of sorts) Message-ID: <90Sep9.154557edt.550@smoke.cs.toronto.edu> Date: 9 Sep 90 19:47:18 GMT References: <9009082202.AA07340@mcirps2.med.nyu.edu> Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto Lines: 76 karron@MCIRPS2.MED.NYU.EDU writes: >Where can I get it (Henry Spencers awf) ? >How do I get somthing in comp.sources.unix ? I don't have rn, > and the main university does not keep postings more than a few days. cs.toronto.edu:pub/awf.shar.Z is a copy straight from Henry's uucppublic. (It's also on uunet.uu.net by now, and every comp.sources.unix archive, presumably) Mark. PS: No, Ed. Don't repost this! :-) From comp.archives Thu Sep 6 20:20:16 EDT 1990 Path: news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!math.lsa.umich.edu!math.lsa.umich.edu!emv From: moraes@cs.toronto.edu (Mark Moraes) Newsgroups: comp.archives Subject: [news.software.b] Re: cnews expire takes forever Keywords: awf, nroff clone, written in old awk, henry spencer lunacy (:-) Message-ID: <1990Sep6.225856.18153@math.lsa.umich.edu> Date: 6 Sep 90 22:58:56 GMT Sender: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) Reply-To: moraes@cs.toronto.edu (Mark Moraes) Followup-To: news.software.b Organization: (none) Lines: 48 Approved: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) X-Original-Newsgroups: news.software.b Archive-name: awf/06-Sep-90 Original-posting-by: moraes@cs.toronto.edu (Mark Moraes) Original-subject: Re: cnews expire takes forever Archive-site: cs.toronto.edu [128.100.1.65] Archive-directory: /pub Reposted-by: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) In news.software.b you write: >Needless to say, I will force myself to reformat ALL of the docs and read >them completely before going any farther. (anybody know of a good PD >{n|t}roff that I can get hold of?) Henry made a cryptic mention of awf, written specifically for this purpose. Since it hasn't shown up in comp.sources.unix yet, an easier way to grab it might be to snarf pub/awf.shar.Z by anonymous ftp from cs.toronto.edu. Here's awf.README. Perhaps some kind soul from osu-cis or uunet will put it there for people without Internet access. Alternatively, try the ftp by mail service offered by bitftp@pucc.princeton.edu (send a message saying "help") If you have GNU C++ (g++), you may want to grab groff instead and get it working. It'll probably run a tad faster. On the other hand, awf is smaller. Mark. ---------- This is awf, the Amazingly Workable Formatter -- a "nroff -man" or (subset) "nroff -ms" clone written entirely in (old) awk. It is slow and has many restrictions, but does a decent job on most manual pages and simple -ms documents, and isn't subject to AT&T's brain-damaged licensing that denies many System V users any text formatter at all. It is also a text formatter that is simple enough to be tinkered with, for people who want to experiment. Type "make r" to run a regression test, formatting the manual page (awf.1) and comparing it to a preformatted copy (awf.1.out). Type "make install" to install it. Pathnames may need changing. I don't know whether awf will run on 16-bit machines. Data requirements are modest, but I fear the programs are probably big enough to run awk out of space. I can't believe I really wrote this. Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry 13 July 1990