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From: teexnma@ioe.lon.ac.uk (Nino Margetic)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: NROFF for PC
Summary: AWF for MSDOS???
Keywords: nroff, awk
Message-ID: <1990Dec10.191405.6058@ioe.lon.ac.uk>
Date: 10 Dec 90 19:14:05 GMT
References: <1990Dec7.000432.6440@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu> <1990Dec7.154008.9373@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
Reply-To: teexnma@ioe.lon.ac.uk (Nino Margetic)
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In article <1990Dec7.154008.9373@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Ran Atkinson <randall@Virginia.EDU> writes:
>
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>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.
>
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>Good Luck,
>
>  Ran
>  randall@Virginia.EDU

Best to my knowledge, the original AWF (Amazingly Workable Formater)
DID NOT WORK on the 16 bit machines, ie under MSDOS. However, I do
remeber that someone claimed to have ported it to MSDOS... Since I
myself am also interested in a nroff(ish) beastie, could someone
confirm this??

--Nino

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