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From: ilan343@violet.berkeley.edu (Geraldo Veiga)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: SVR 4.0 troff is ancient BSD version
Message-ID: <1990Dec1.015152.25128@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: 1 Dec 90 01:51:52 GMT
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In article <977@iiasa.UUCP> wnp%iiasa@relay.eu.net (Wolf PAUL ) writes:
>In article <1990Nov29.154821.1709@cbnewsl.att.com> npn@cbnewsl.att.com (nils-peter.nelson) writes:
>)A poster asked the origins of the troff in System V
>)release 4. It's an ancient Berkeley version; in fact,
>)I think Bill Joy ported it himself. It's in the BSD
>)compatibility directory. Works great if you have an
>)APS phototypesetter.
>
>Actually, it probably expects a C/A/T.
>
>But don't despair: That is exactly what PSROFF, recently posted

If you hope for a "standard" troff, there's every reason to despair.
DWB 2.0 didn't make it as a standard because all BSD machines had the
old troff built-in.  Now even System V systems will have it too.
Well, at least the problem of maintaining and printing manual pages is
solved, and PSROFF adds support to everyday printers. 

	Geraldo


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