Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!hemuli.tik.vtt.fi!fuug!news.funet.fi!uta!kielo!av From: av@kielo.uta.fi (Arto V. Viitanen) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: DOS "nroff" Message-ID: Date: 2 Apr 91 07:17:27 GMT References: <1991Mar26.200752.14104@rodan.acs.syr.edu> <641@adphdw20.UUCP> <1991Mar29.175343.1569@unlv.edu> Sender: news@uta.fi Reply-To: av@uta.fi (Arto V. Viitanen) Organization: University of Tampere, Finland Lines: 19 Nntp-Posting-Host: uta.fi In-reply-to: grover@big-joe.cs.unlv.edu's message of 29 Mar 91 17:53:43 GMT >>>>> On 29 Mar 91 17:53:43 GMT, grover@big-joe.cs.unlv.edu (Kevin Grover) said: Kevin> In article <641@adphdw20.UUCP>, dtb@adpplz.UUCP (Tom Beach) writes: Kevin> ) > Please excuse me if this is a FAQ or in the wrong newsgroup, but where can I Kevin> ) > find a DOS version of nroff? Kevin> ) > Kevin> Look on SIMTEL for a program called NRO (with the version number behind it.) Kevin> It as the man package. I'm not sure about anything else. It works nicely, Kevin> and it free. Also free is GNU's groff, C++ implementation of troff (and tbl, pic, eqn,..). It supports PostScript, dvi (TeX) and text output. Only catch is, you need 386 and 387 (or 486) and DJ's implementation of GNU C++ (posted at comp.binaries.ibm.pc). Groff is on GNU ftp sites. -- Arto V. Viitanen email: av@kielo.uta.fi University Of Tampere, av@ohdake.cs.uta.fi Finland