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From: grover@big-joe.cs.unlv.edu (Kevin Grover)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: DOS "nroff"
Message-ID: <1991Mar29.175343.1569@unlv.edu>
Date: 29 Mar 91 17:53:43 GMT
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In article <641@adphdw20.UUCP>, dtb@adpplz.UUCP (Tom Beach) writes:
) > Please excuse me if this is a FAQ or in the wrong newsgroup, but where can I
) > find a DOS version of nroff?
) > 
) I know of 2. Both commercial products. Elan software makes one called
) nroff/PC. It lists for about $95 and is only nroff, the tbl and eqn
) preprocessors, the man and mm macro packages.
) MKS systems also has a package called MDQS or something very similar.
) It contains both nroff and troff as well as the eqn and table preprocessors
) and macro packages. MKS systems also has a LAserJet driver and a postscript
) driver for their troff clone. The MKS package runs ~$500 for the  basic
) nroff/troff and I don't remember the laser printer driver prices but 
) ~$295??
) 
) Tom Beach

Look on SIMTEL for a program called NRO (with the version number behind it.)
It as the man package.  I'm not sure about anything else.  It works nicely,
and it free.

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