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From: berg@cip-s01.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (AKA Solitair)
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Subject: Re: nroff formatter for DOS
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Date: 12 Oct 90 09:18:50 GMT
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Richard Reiner writes:
>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

Well, believe me, it doesn't.  AWK runs out of memory on MSDOS systems.
(At least all the AWK programs I have do).
--
Sincerely,                 berg%cip-s01.informatik.rwth-aachen.de@unido.bitnet
           Stephen R. van den Berg.
"I code it in 5 min, optimize it in 90 min, because it's so well optimized:
it runs in only 5 min.  Actually, most of the time I optimize programs."