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From: rreiner@yunexus.YorkU.CA (Richard Reiner)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: nroff formatter for DOS
Message-ID: <16042@yunexus.YorkU.CA>
Date: 11 Oct 90 16:42:20 GMT
References: <6943539525.35B@testsys.uucp>
Organization: York U. Computing Services
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doug@testsys writes:

>Love those man pages in nroff format, but I don't have an interpreter
>up to snuff. I have ancient versions of things called proff and pcroff
>which go part way only.
>Is there help or does everything have to go to the unix box  for text
>formatting? 

Try awf, a nroff {-man,-ms} clone posted recently to either
alt.sources or comp.sources.unix.  It consists of a shell script
driving an AWK program (!).  I'm pretty sure it will work on MessDOS
using Ian Stewartson's Bourne shell and either GAWK or Rob Duff's AWK.
It won't be quick, but it does handle man pages nicely.

--richard