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From: matloff@gandalf.Berkeley.EDU (Norman Matloff)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: DOS "nroff"
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Date: 4 Apr 91 07:05:36 GMT
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In article <AV.91Apr2101727@kielo.uta.fi> av@uta.fi (Arto V. Viitanen) writes:

>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) 

Doing a quick grep on the source code, I couldn't find any variables of 
type float.  Are you sure f.p. hardware is needed?

>and DJ's implementation of GNU C++ (posted at
>comp.binaries.ibm.pc).  

Does groff work in a DOS environment too?  Apparently C++ does.  Has
anyone actually tried it out, or know of such a thing?

   Norm