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From: jaap@mtxinu.COM (Jaap Akkerhuis)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Documentor's Workbench Install problems on Sun
Keywords: ditroff, dwb, troff
Message-ID: <1354@mtxinu.UUCP>
Date: 19 Sep 90 20:14:59 GMT
References: <2047@cfa209.cfa250.harvard.edu> <1990Sep19.122319.26279@tukki.jyu.fi>
Reply-To: jaap@mtxinu.UUCP (Jaap Akkerhuis)
Organization: mt Xinu, Berkeley
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In article <1990Sep19.122319.26279@tukki.jyu.fi> sakkinen@jytko.jyu.fi (Markku Sakkinen) writes:
 > 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.

Yep 2.0 is old and outdated, it predates the sparc machines and won't
run properly on these type of machines, basically
due to problems with variable arguments etc.

Apparently 3.0 came out some months ago and that will run without
any problem.


	jaap