Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!micor!latour!ecicrl!clewis
From: clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: Re: DWB for Unix-pc/3B1/Safari 4
Keywords: DWB, 3B1, troff, Money?
Message-ID: <1352@ecicrl.ocunix.on.ca>
Date: 15 Feb 91 22:23:41 GMT
References: <1991Feb4.172022.28688@kodak.kodak.com> <59@heurikon.heurikon.com>
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In article <59@heurikon.heurikon.com> dklann@heurikon.heurikon.com writes:
>Yes, we do have DWB 2.0.  For those who are familiar with nroff, this is the
>real thing.

No.  It's just nroff.  How something could be DWB 2.anything without troff
is a little hard to comprehend.  If only they had shipped the old CAT troff
we'd have *something* that can be made to work.  I know, how about asking
for CAT troff binaries in the next FIX disk if there's ever one?

> I, for one, would like the ability to generate PostScript from roff source on
> my UNIXpc at home.  This proposal would give me the ability to do just that.
> I also agree with Jeffery - the price would have to be right.

>On the other hand...  has anyone gotten FSF's groff ported yet?

I've got the sources for groff.  But you need g++ first...  Does anybody have
g++ ported and binaries of it available for uucp?

Nils-Peter rather blithly ruled out DWB 3.1 for 3b1's which is rather
unfortunate (suggesting that it would cost 100's of dollars for a simple
compile and a set of floppies.  For some reason he thinks AT&T would
have to market the durn thing.)
-- 
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