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From: jcs@engr.uark.edu (James Sullins)
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Subject: Re: nroff formatter for DOS
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Date: 18 Oct 90 13:09:30 GMT
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berg@cip-s01.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (AKA Solitair) writes:

>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).

I made a few minor modifications to get it working under DOS. The main
modification was unnesting a deeply nested if-then-else construct in one
of the awk programs.

 - James

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