Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!maverick.ksu.ksu.edu!phobos.cis.ksu.edu!craig From: craig@phobos.cis.ksu.edu (Stuart A Craig ) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: Troff in DOS? Message-ID: Date: 28 Feb 91 16:10:28 GMT References: <80330012@hpl-opus.hpl.hp.com> <205028@teemc.UUCP> <13621@ccicpg.UUCP> Sender: news@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu (The News Guru) Organization: Kansas State University Lines: 38 mhr@ccicpg.UUCP (MHR {who?}) writes: >In <205028@teemc.UUCP>, wayne@teemc.UUCP writes: >> In article <80330012@hpl-opus.hpl.hp.com> knotts@hpl-opus.hpl.hp.com (Tom Knotts) writes: >> > >> >Anyone ever heard of software which can handle Troff in DOS? A screen >> >previewer as well as a laser driver would be nice. >> > >> >Just curious. >> >> I think Elan sells one. >> -- >> Michael R. Wayne --- TMC & Associates --- wayne@teemc.tmc.mi.org >> Operator of the only 240 Horsepower UNIX machine in Michigan >Indeed Elan does have one - it's around $200 for the MSDOS version (I >think - it's been around six months since I looked at it). They also >have a demo which shows you what your system can do once it's set up >right, but that's about it. After that you have to buy it or forget it. >The Elan product is DWB 2.0 compatible and they advertise it as "lots of >known and new bugs from troff fixed in it". It looks very impressive, >and if you have the $$$ I'd recommend it. >Unfortunately I don't have their docs any more, including their phone >number. In fact, I don't even remeber which area code they're in. >Howsomever (as Pogo would say), try Unix Review or Unix World or Unix >Today for an ad - someone must carry it. You could even try Byte or PC >Magazine or PC World or any of the others of that genre as well. try : Elan Computer Group, Inc. 410 Cambridge Avenue, Suite A Palo Alto, CA 94306 Ph# (415) 964-2200 internet: craig@phobos.cis.ksu.edu bitnet: sac@ksuvm