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From: jkoval@hari.uwo.ca (John Koval)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Documentor's Workbench Install problems on Sun
Keywords: ditroff, dwb, troff
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Date: 20 Sep 90 14:20:29 GMT
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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!!!
>
>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.
>
I have struggled with DWB Release 1.0, and was hoping that Release 2.0
was better.  Moreover costs are high, $1500 (educational) for first copy
of DWB 2.0, and $2000 for DWB 3.1 (quote from Bill Murphy at Unix
Systems International (?) in New Jersey).  These are comparable to prices
quoted by commercial sources (SoftQuad in Toronto, and Elan in ???).
I wonder if commercial version are better.


John Koval 	  Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
University of Western Ontario	 London Ontario Canada N5A 5C1
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John Koval 	  Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
University of Western Ontario	 London Ontario Canada N5A 5C1
(519-)661-2162 				jkoval@biostats.uwo.ca
					jkoval@uwovax.bitnet