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From: ewoods@hemel.bull.co.uk (Eoin Woods)
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Subject: Re: Where does one get ditroff?
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Date: 12 Dec 90 13:03:24 GMT
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wargaski@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Robert E. Wargaski Jr.) writes:

>In article <1990Dec5.091906.26766@hemel.bull.co.uk>, ewoods@hemel.bull.co.uk (Eoin Woods) writes:
>|>
>|> No, to the best of my knowledge ditroff is not a public domain program -
>|> It is the property of AT&T.
>|> 
>|> Ditroff is supplied with the Documenter's WorkBench (DWB) - see the
>|> discussion raging in this group over the price for more information!
>|> 
>|> Anyone know if a PD clone exists ??
>|> 
>|> Eoin.

>I believe the folks over at GNU have come up with `groff'.  The output
>isn't nearly as good as ditroff, though . . .

Yes, groff is available from prep.ai.mit.edu (or any of the mirror sites
that copy the GNU stuff across) -- I haven't tried to use it yet though,
as it needs g++ which isn't on our machine yet!! :-(

Eoin.
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