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From: randall@Virginia.EDU (Ran Atkinson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: NROFF for PC
Message-ID: <1990Dec7.154008.9373@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
Date: 7 Dec 90 15:40:08 GMT
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In article <1990Dec7.000432.6440@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu>, 
	reich@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Dick Reichenbach) writes:


>NROSRC.arc seems to be just the animal I need.  But it is shipped in source 
>only.  

[ some material deleted to save bandwidth :-) ]

>Back to the point.  I need a reference to the Computer Innovations 2.00
>compiler. (C, I belive)  Or an already compiled NROFF formatter, Or a gracious
>soul with the CI2.00 compiler that would be willing to compile the program for
>me.

I don't understand why you'd need any particular brand of C compiler,
most all will compile NRO.

I'd suggest that you look into getting GAWK and Henry Spencer's AWF program.
It could be modified to handle macro packages other than -man and -ms
(which are supplied) and frankly it works better than the NRO formatter did
when I tried to use it.  

AWF is available from one of the sources archives near you (c.s.misc or
maybe c.s.unix ) and GAWK is widely available in both source and binary
form.  I'd suggest that you get a fairly recent version of GAWK rather
than an older one.

SoftQuad and Elan and Mortice Kern Systems (MKS) I think are among
the commercial vendors selling a full-blown nroff port to MSDOS.
If you use it a lot, it would be worth considering buying a commercial
port.

Good Luck,

  Ran
  randall@Virginia.EDU