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From: jdudeck@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (John R. Dudeck)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: NROFF for PCs?
Message-ID: <2756ad47.627b@petunia.CalPoly.EDU>
Date: 30 Nov 90 19:04:39 GMT
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Organization: Cal Poly State Univ,CSC Dept,San Luis Obispo,CA 93407
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In an article bkahn@archive.webo.dg.com (Bruce Kahn) wrote:
>  Pardon my ignorance but can someone tell me if there is an NROFF or clone
>program out there for the PC?  If so, where can I find it and/or FTP it from?

I just downloaded NROSRC.ARC from the /mirrors/msdos/txtutl directory of
wuarchive.wustl.edu.  It has the source for nro, a v7 clone of nroff.

Unfortunately the source was written for Computer Innovations C on DOS 1.x,
and it took quite a bit of work to get it to compile under MS C 5.1.

It now seems to be working fine, though it is still v7, and doesn't
handle a lot of the macros that seems to be currently used.  Still, I
am able to get reasonable man pages out of a lot of the documentation
that comes with pd software in nroff format.

I'm not sure whether there is a better nroff out there.  Perhaps it is
worthwhile for me to either upload this one to SIMTEL or c.b.i.p.  I need to
learn how to do it if so :^)

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