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From: sakkinen@tukki.jyu.fi (Markku Sakkinen)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Documentor's Workbench Install problems on Sun
Keywords: ditroff, dwb, troff
Message-ID: <1990Sep19.122319.26279@tukki.jyu.fi>
Date: 19 Sep 90 12:23:19 GMT
References: <2047@cfa209.cfa250.harvard.edu>
Reply-To: sakkinen@jytko.jyu.fi (Markku Sakkinen)
Organization: University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
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In article <2047@cfa209.cfa250.harvard.edu> zender@cfa250.harvard.edu (Charlie Zender) writes:
>I would greatly appreciate hearing from anyone at a site that is
>running AT&T's Documentor's Workbench on the Sun OS.  We received a
>copy of version 2.0 on mag tape with two red binders and very poor,
>misleading, unworking documentation.  About half of the make files had
>to be edited, along with some source code just to get the thing
>compiled on our sparcstation.  Now that its compiled, it doesn't
>produce ditroff output!!!
>Suggestions?

Sounds familiar.  DWB Release 2.0 is several years old,
and AT&T haven't bothered to develop it up to production quality.
When I asked their European subsidiary about a newer release,
they said that no such thing is coming and recommended the QuadSoft product.
There are other good products available that are based on DWB,
at least that from Elan.  I hope you didn't have to pay very much.

When I put up DWB 2.0 on a Sun 3 once upon a time,
the problems were not as great as you describe,
although certainly there was a lot of work and problems.
The Sparc may cause some part of them.
In any case, the first necessity is to put up the System V environment
in SunOS as completely as possible.  Did you do that?

Markku Sakkinen
Department of Computer Science and Information Systems
University of Jyvaskyla (a's with umlauts)
Seminaarinkatu 15
SF-40100 Jyvaskyla (umlauts again)
Finland
          SAKKINEN@FINJYU.bitnet (alternative network address)