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From: buck@siswat.UUCP (A. Lester Buck)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Pricing and cost
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Date: 6 Dec 90 06:15:11 GMT
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< >Speaking of which, does anyone know the status of troff and man-pages
< >for 4.4BSD ?  There was talk (from Kirk McKusick, I think) 11 months
< >ago at the DC Usenix BOF that they were trying to figure out how to
< >handle the man pages when the non-AT&T 4.4 is finally released.
< >As I recall, they were trying to get AT&T to release CAT troff to
< >the public domain, or else they were going to reformat all the man
< >pages in TeX and use TeX for the man pages.
< 
< Then you have to figure out a good way to display them online.
< 
< I like GNU Texinfo.  It works fairly well, the price is right, and it
< is at least somewhat portable.  (There is a DOS port of stand-alone
< texinfo utilities, for example.)
< 
< Michael Pereckas               * InterNet: m-pereckas@uiuc.edu *
< just another student...          (CI$: 72311,3246)
< Jargon Dept.: Decoupled Architecture---sounds like the aftermath of a tornado

I was also at the BOF, and the BSD crew was asking for volunteers to recode
many utilites to be AT&T clean.  Several of these had GNU equivalents
(such as Yet Another make), but they could not distribute GNU with BSD
because many of their corporate "customers" can't abide by the GNU public
license.  So I think that may prevent the direct use of GNU Texinfo.
I am all for the conversion to TeX, and the BSD guys seemed shocked at
the level of support for switching to TeX expressed by the audience.

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A. Lester Buck    buck@siswat.lonestar.org  ...!uhnix1!lobster!siswat!buck

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