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From: kooijman@duteca (Richard Kooijman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: nroff/troff for MS-DOS
Message-ID: <1077@duteca.UUCP>
Date: 9 Oct 90 09:50:59 GMT
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Organization: Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
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a577@mindlink.UUCP (Curt Sampson) writes:

>Does anybody know if there is some sort of nroff/troff clone (preferably
>freeware/shareware/whatever) available for MS-DOS, and if so, where I could get
>it?  Thanks.

Yes, there is. The C Users Group has a disk (number 304) with a troff clone.
To be more precise, the author tried to make it as compatible as possible.
The program differs on some commands (i.e. .rm does remove something in troff,
in ROFF5 it sets the right margin, I believe). But for 99% it is compatible.
The full source is included, so you could change the things you don't like.
Furthermore it has macros with names of an arbitrary length and parameters.
You can easily add printer specific commands in macros, to download characters
your printer doesn't have.
The source is in Turbo C, but it should be easy to compile it with other
compilers.

Richard.